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Risk/reward and dopamine by Rossa Forbes Posted Thu 25 Mar 2010 12:00am Here is an e-mail I sent recently to Chris's psychiatrist, Dr. Stern. I based my concerns about the continued use of the meds on the dampening of dopamine levels to suppress anger and anxiety while simultaneously suppressing the risk/reward incentive. Dear Dr. Stern, The concerns I expressed about the medication suppressing the risk/reward Read on »

Stuck on ... dopamine by Jason Schwartz, LMSW Healthy Living Professional

Posted Sun 19 Sep 2010 6:40pm 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...: 1) We are all secret masochists, and take pleasure in pain or 2) Dopamine is really about attention and motivation, and is not just the chemical of pleasure and rewards. I Read on »

Alcoholic Spouse Troubles? His Dopamine Highs are Causing Your Lows by addictiondoc Posted Tue 02 Feb 2010 12:59pm is related to the “dopamine reward pathway” in his brain. In other words, if he/she wants to experience pleasure, he/she will drink a lot of alcohol ( to increase dopamine). His/her... 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 Read on »

Obesity, drug addiction, and dopamine by Adi Jaffe

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Posted Sun 06 Jun 2010 9:30am difficult. Dopamine, reward, and junk-food The study took three groups of rats and gave them either the regular chow diet lab animals are used to or the worse kind of birthday... in the density of a specific kind of dopamine receptor ( D2 ) in a brain part known as the striatum, the same kind of reduction common in drug addicted people and obese individuals Read on »

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 Read on »

Serotonin and Dopamine: A Primer by Dirk H. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 12 Sep 2008 3:22am The Molecules of Reward Serotonin and dopamine are part of a group of compounds called biogenic amines. In addition to serotonin and dopamine, the amines include... rewarding. Even in the absence of any possibility of reward--on a desert island, in a rehab clinic--dopamine dysregulation could kindle episodes of fierce craving, because Read on »

Food Addiction and Dopamine by Dirk H. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 24 Aug 2008 7:08pm

1 Comment they were offered water mixed with sucralose, otherwise known as Splenda. Low-cal sweeteners did not result in a similar dopamine boost along the reward pathways of the brain... Why your brain likes sweets. The brain's ability to sniff out calories in the form of sugar depends upon sugar's drug-like effect on the dopamine-rich Read on »

Dopamine levels in brain 'influence decision making' by Healthy Solutions Patient Expert

Posted Sat 09 Jan 2010 7:00am BBC News Dopamine, a chemical with a key role in setting people's moods, could have a much wider-ranging impact on their everyday lives, research suggests. Dopamine is known to have a "reward" function in the brain Experiments show that altering levels of the chemical in the brain influences Read on »

Benztropinamine Analogs as Dopamine Transport Inhibitors by nih.gov Posted Sat 30 Jun 2007 5:00pm Description of Invention: Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is directly involved in motor activity, motivation and reward, and cognition. The dopamine transporter is expressed on the plasma membrane of dopamine neurons and is responsible for clearing dopamine released into the extracellular space, thereby regulating neurotransmission Read on »

Fibromyalgia, Dopamine and Gray Matter by awesome Healthy Living Professional

Posted Fri 18 Sep 2009 10:20pm . That difference is that fibromyalgia patients produce less dopamine in the areas of the brain that process pain. Dopamine is a chemical produced by the body that acts as a neurotransmitter believed to be involved in behavior and cognition, voluntary movement, motivation and reward, sleep, mood, attention, and learning. The study was very small, including only 6 female Read on »