Difference in reward response between Depression Cohort and Epilepsy Cohort. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49600-7 As parents, teachers and pet owners can attest, rewards play a huge role in shaping behaviors in humans and animals. Rewards—whether as edible treats, gifts, words of appreciation or praise, fame or monetary benefits—act as positive reinforcement for the associated behavior. While this correlation between reward and future choice has been used as a well-established paradigm in neuroscience research for well over a century, not much is known about the neural process underlying it, Read More