Science news articles about 'social rewards'

... S/L or L/L variants to learn how genetic variation might influence their responses to social rewards and punishments. They found that monkeys with one copy of the short gene spent less time gazing at ...

... may result from reduced reward-related activity in the ventral striatum in response to social rewards." In addition to differing responses in the ventral striatum, the subjects also recorded ...

... striatum (a deep structure in the centre of the brain), the higher they tended to score on the social reward dependence measure. The research is published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. Dr ...

... brain regions (the nucleus accumbens, insula, hypothalamus, hippocampus, and amygdala) associated with social rewards and motivation, processing emotions, hormonal changes, and social memory responded ...