Teenage risk-taking, such as experimentation with alcohol, cannabis, nicotine and other substances, may reflect a ...

Recent research indicates that lower levels of the neurotransmitter may actually result in increased risk-taking.

Teenage substance experimentation is driven by low baseline dopamine, acting as a compensatory brain response.

You sit down to start a task you care about. Nothing happens. You open your phone instead. Minutes turn into hours. You feel restless, flat, or oddly exhausted, even though you haven't done much at ...