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The Molecules of Reward
Serotonin and dopamine are part of a group of compounds called... that are potentially rewarding. Even in the absence of any possibility of reward--on a desert island, in a rehab clinic--dopamine... 
have shown that the dopamine reward pathway is also extremely active when people are forced to eat something disgusting, or...
In attempting to explain attention and ADHD, Jonah Lehrer explains dopamine's salience function...
in the form of sugar depends upon sugar's drug-like effect on the dopamine-rich reward center known...-cal sweeteners did not result in a similar dopamine boost along the reward pathways of the brain.
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Dopamine is known to have a "reward" function in the brain
Experiments show that altering levels...
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Dopamine, a chemical with a key role in setting people...
is that fibromyalgia patients produce less dopamine in the areas of the brain that process pain.
Dopamine... and cognition, voluntary movement, motivation and reward, sleep, mood, attention, and learning.
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Overeating, drug abuse, and the D2 receptor.
A genetic variation in the dopamine D2 receptor... University and the University of Texas have used brain scans to show that a dopamine-rich structure called...
an active drug produced significant amounts of dopamine, a chemical key to the brain's reward system... and dopamine release in Parkinson's patients nine years ago. Given dopamine's role in the reward system... 
Biological reward comes from the release of the neurotransmitter, dopamine. Performing working memory tasks promotes dopamine release. In the study of human subjects by Fiona McNab and colleagues... 
't process reward the same way; whether ultimately derived from dopamine circuits, reward is blunted...A recent review article titled " Theoretical perspective on anorexia nervosa: The conflict of reward... 
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