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Dopamine Dosage - Articles
Reward and Punish: Say Hello to Dopamine’s Leetle Friend
by
Dirk H.
Posted
Tue 31 Jan 2012 11:06am
Dopamine recruits a helper to track drug rewards.
Ah, dopamine. Whenever it seems like researchers have finally gotten a bead on how that tricky molecule modulates pleasure and reward, and the role it plays in the process of drug and alcohol addiction, along come new findings that rearrange its role, deepening and complicating our und ...
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“Everything You Want Releases Dopamine…”
by
GinaPera
Posted
Thu 24 Jun 2010 12:00am
“….And you want it because it releases dopamine,” explains the short video below.
“Things are important and valuable only if they activate your dopamine…..
“Being unfocused and easily distracted means you’re low on dopamine.”
Bottom line: If you don’t have “enough” dopamine, or your dopamine is activated only by over-the-top
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Do dopamine levels play a role in stuttering?
by
Tom Weidig
Posted
Thu 20 Jan 2011 12:49pm
Holger made me aware that a study on Dopamine Function in Developmental Stuttering has recently been closed. The study
will use positron emission tomography (PET) to examine the role of the chemical messenger dopamine in stuttering. It will measure and compare the number of dopamine receptors and the amount of dopamine released in the brains
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0October 27, 2009Motivation and dopamine
by
Social Psychology Eye
Posted
Tue 27 Oct 2009 12:00am
of this motivation is difficult to pinpoint. The New York Times reported several studies focusing on the effects of dopamine , revealing that dopamine should no longer be thought of “as our little Bacchus in the brain.” Until recently, dopamine was thought of as a provider of “pleasure and reward.”
In one study, mice with significantly less dopamine seemed satisfied
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Alcoholic Spouse Troubles? His Dopamine Highs are Causing Your Lows
by
addictiondoc
Posted
Tue 02 Feb 2010 12:59pm
how he/she has gotten this far into alcohol addiction. Why?
Here is one reason:
A new study out of Denmark and Japan has shown that dopamine levels (a chemical in the brain are higher in the brain of people that have a tendency toward addiction). Also, they are less sensitive to dopamine effects. In other words, they need more stimulation (in your husband
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Stuck on ... dopamine
by
Jason Schwartz, LMSW
Posted
Sun 19 Sep 2010 6:40pm
In attempting to explain attention and ADHD, Jonah Lehrer explains dopamine's salience function
But the caricature of dopamine as simply the chemical of hedonism is woefully incomplete. For instance, studies have shown that the dopamine reward pathway is also extremely active when people are forced to eat something disgusting, or when a subject
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Gimme Dopamine!! Fast!
by
Jeff H.
Posted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 11:03am
increases levels of dopamine in our brains. As a result, this provides emotional levity, the ability to focus, mental alertness and calmness. When we don’t produce dopamine, it can... and rehabilitating……it has served as a very good reminder of how important it is for an ADD’er like me to exercise and get that dopamine going in my brain.
I have missed my runs, bike rides
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