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Affective pain leads to inhibition of dopamine neurons decreasing motivation, but it can be restored. Washington University in St. Louis (MI, USA) researchers have uncovered the neuronal circuitry in ...

“IT’S NOT WHAT we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” So goes a quote by Mark Twain that gets right at the heart of many commonplace errors. Oftentimes ...

Pat McAfee could feel Nick Saban getting uncomfortable. When ESPN’s College Gameday rolled into Tuscaloosa for Alabama-Texas, McAfee sat next to Saban on set. As McAfee praised the Alabama football’s ...