Dopamine could explain why exercise helps boost your brain
A study exploring the mechanisms behind why cognitive performance improves in response to exercise, has found that dopamine plays a key role.
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A study exploring the mechanisms behind why cognitive performance improves in response to exercise, has found that dopamine plays a key role.
Jan 12, 2024
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Menus are usually something you'd expect to come across in a restaurant. But one social media influencer went viral recently for sharing a different kind of menu—a "dopamine menu" or dopamenu.
Dec 12, 2023
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What happens in the human brain when we learn from positive and negative experiences? To help answer that question and better understand decision-making and human behavior, scientists are studying dopamine.
Dec 1, 2023
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Results from a new clinical trial suggest that a group of brain regions known as the "salience network" is activated after a drug is taken intravenously, but not when that same drug is taken orally.
Nov 8, 2023
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Has someone close to you just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease? Well, chances are the disease has been progressing quietly but insidiously for more than 10 years, new research shows.
Jul 18, 2023
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A team of psychiatrists from Duke University and Yale University has found what they describe as a causal association between evening social media use and delayed sleep. In their study, reported in the journal Sleep Medicine, ...
The nationwide shortages of Adderall that began in fall 2022 have brought renewed attention to the beleaguered drug, which is used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy.
Apr 10, 2023
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Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered novel sex-specific mechanisms that control how stress hormones impact dopamine transmission and motivation, findings that can inform new therapeutic strategies for treating ...
Mar 24, 2023
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Researchers at The University of Alabama identified a critical mechanism for how signals from the environment are integrated with genetic information to influence the health and survival of brain cells, providing a key insight ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that's made in the brain and acts as a chemical messenger, communicating between nerve cells in the brain and the rest of the body. Dopamine can impact how people think and feel. While it's ...
Feb 7, 2023
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