Here, we made intraoral infusions of sucrose and measured how dopamine and behavioral responses varied to the changing valence of sucrose. Pairing intraoral sucrose with malaise via injection of ...
That rewarding feeling you experience comes from dopamine, a powerful chemical messenger in the brain often dubbed the ‘feel-good’ neurotransmitter. While dopamine fuels our motivation and ...
Researchers from the Champalimaud Foundation have shed light on the puzzling relationship between dopamine and rest tremor in Parkinson's disease, finding that preserved dopamine in certain brain ...
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 ...
Summary: The interplay between dopamine and serotonin shapes behavior by creating a balance between reward-seeking and impulse control. A novel study demonstrated that both systems work in opposition ...
Never mind that glutamate and GABA do most of the work -- it's the thrill of dopamine as the "pleasure chemical" and serotonin as tender mood-stabilizer that attract all the headlines. Of course ...
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 ...