In a materials science discovery, scientists made a liquid silk solution that hardens and picks up objects—not unlike ...

Dopamine is an inotropic agent that has vasodilatory effects at low doses. It is a common belief that low-dose dopamine may be helpful in the prevention and treatment of acute renal failure and is ...

For example, among other functions, L-Tyrosine can be converted into dopamine, a neurotransmitter linked to pleasure, and ...

Senior author Joaquim Alves da Silva, head of the Neural Circuits Dysfunction Lab, picks up the story: "This is the first large study to clearly show a link between better-preserved dopamine ...

Naturally rewarding stimuli (i.e. food, sex, etc) increase the activity of dopamine cells in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system causing increased dopamine release in brain areas such as the nucleus ...