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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Organic Chemicals: News and Research on Dopamine
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Neuroscientists identify 'chemical imprint of desire'
Hop in the car to meet your lover for dinner and a flood of dopamine— the same hormone underlying cravings for sugar, nicotine and cocaine—likely infuses your brain's reward center, motivating you to brave the traffic to ...
Jan 12, 2024
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Love scrambles the brain and scientists can now tell us why
Love is blind, the saying goes, and thanks to a world-first Australian study, we are now a step closer to understanding why.
Jan 9, 2024
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Winter brings more than just ugly sweaters—here's how the season can affect your mind and behavior
What comes to mind when you think about winter? Snowflakes? Mittens? Reindeer? In much of the Northern Hemisphere, winter means colder temperatures, shorter days and year-end holidays.
Dec 17, 2023
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New study sheds light on how the brain learns to seek reward
Imagine you're teaching a dog to play fetch. You throw a ball, and your dog sprints after it, picks it up, and runs back. You then reward your panting pup with a treat. But now comes the real trick for your dog: figuring ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Dopamine menus: The science behind the trend, and how it might help people with ADHD
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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Real-time dopamine measurement using a flexible probe that minimizes brain damage
A research team led by Jang Kyung-in, a Professor affiliated with the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST, developed a dopamine measurement device that can precisely analyze dopamine concentration ...
Dec 11, 2023
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Q&A: Psychology professor discusses the neuroscience behind giving and receiving gifts
The hustle and bustle of the holiday season is upon us and part of the holiday cheer revolves around exchanging gifts.
Dec 6, 2023
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Research shows human behavior guided by fast changes in dopamine levels
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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How neurotransmitters work together to detect and discriminate odors
A longstanding hypothesis in neurobiology was that a single neuron releases a single type of neurotransmitter, a molecule used by neurons to communicate with one another. In recent decades, several neurons have been found ...
Nov 28, 2023
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