Global warming leads to more intense tropical cyclones (TCs). Three separate lines of evidence from both observations and models suggest that the open endedness of the 5th category of the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale becomes ...Global warming increases available sensible and latent heat energy, increasing the thermodynamic potential wind intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs). Supported by theory, observations, and modeling, this causes a shift in mean TC intensity, which tends to ...

The ventral striatum is an important controller of motivated behavior. This nucleus receives dopamine afferents from the ventral tegmental area and glutamate afferents from the basolateral amygdala, thalamus, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), and ventral hippocampus, which encode emotional, sensory,