Dopamine is the brain’s motivational spark, driving us to chase what feels good and steer clear of what doesn’t. But scientists haven’t fully understood how dopamine helps us learn to avoid bad ...

Avoidance learning is part of an organism’s survival instinct, as it develops a response to evade a hostile stimulus before it happens. After experiencing an unpleasant stimulus, organisms start to ...

A new study published in Current Biology00435-X) sheds light on how the brain learns to avoid harmful situations, revealing that dopamine—commonly associated with pleasure and reward—also plays a ...