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Study shines light on brain mechanism that controls reward enjoyment

Development, Memory, Motivation, Neuroscience, Psychology genetics, motivation

What characterizes many people with depression, schizophrenia and some other mental illnesses is anhedonia: an inability to gain pleasure from normally pleasurable experiences.

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