Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your brain chemicals play a role in everything you do. They enable communication between the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dopamine drops naturally as we age. In fact, according to a report in the journal Oxidative Medicine and Cell Longevity, each ...

Study: Smartphone-based prediction of dopaminergic deficit in prodromal and manifest Parkinson’s disease. Image Credit: mozakim / Shutterstock.com Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative ...

An overview of the study. Left: Dopamine neurons (purple) project from the brainstem to the striatum to regulate motor function, while a distinct population (red), identified in 2021, projects to the ...

Recent research indicates that lower levels of the neurotransmitter may actually result in increased risk-taking.

A research team from the University of Cologne conducted one of the most comprehensive studies on dopamine and decision-making in humans so far, providing evidence for effects of the former on the ...

Willeit and Sitte have found that serious health problems can arise if too little or too much dopamine is being self-produced. For example, if too few dopamine molecules are released and in ...

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California San Diego have revealed that receiving an inhibitory signal ...

Menus are usually something you'd expect to come across in a restaurant. But one social media influencer went viral recently for sharing a different kind of menu—a "dopamine menu" or dopamenu.