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Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have a behavioral disorder, nor are they lazy, or lacking in manners and boundaries. Their brains mature in a different way, with different patterns of ...
Dec 11, 2024
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Dopamine is a powerful signal in the brain, influencing our moods, motivations, movements, and more. The neurotransmitter is crucial for reward-based learning, a function that may be disrupted in a number of psychiatric conditions, ...
Dec 10, 2024
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The short-term boost our brains get after we do exercise persists throughout the following day, suggests a study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.
Dec 10, 2024
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As the days start getting shorter and darker, people might feel impacted by seasonal affective disorder (SAD). The downturn in mood that happens with the change in light is likely associated with decreased levels of neurotransmitters, ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Do you prefer Black Friday or Cyber Monday? The January sales or Amazon's Prime Day? Or perhaps you like to hold out for a good old-fashioned everything-must-go shop clearance.
Nov 29, 2024
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If you've heard of two of the brain's chemical neurotransmitters, it's probably dopamine and serotonin. Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work—it's the thrill of dopamine as the "pleasure chemical" and serotonin ...
Nov 25, 2024
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Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation have shed light on the puzzling relationship between dopamine and rest tremor in Parkinson's disease, finding that preserved dopamine in certain brain regions may actually contribute ...
Nov 18, 2024
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Fall for me as a teenager meant football games, homecoming dresses—and haunted houses. My friends organized group trips to the local fairground, where barn sheds were turned into halls of horror, and masked men nipped at ...
Oct 21, 2024
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A study that used a specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)--neuromelanin-sensitive MRI-- has shown that this type of MRI signal was increased in regions of the midbrain in young adults ages 20 to 24 who had ...
Oct 16, 2024
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The chemical messenger dopamine is an essential catalyst that fuels activities and behaviors ranging from movement to cognition and learning. However, neuroscientists have long debated whether these functions rely on rapid ...
Oct 16, 2024
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