Dopamine
noun
A type of chemical released in your brain that helps control pleasure and happiness.
Exercise can help increase the levels of dopamine in your brain, which is why you often feel good after a workout.
Often appears as...
- release of dopamine
- dopamine levels
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Technical
noun
A drug used in treating certain diseases such as Parkinson's by increasing dopamine amounts in the brain.
The doctor prescribed dopamine to manage the patient's Parkinson's symptoms.
Often appears as...
- prescribe dopamine
- dopamine treatment
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Technical
noun
A type of chemical released in your brain that helps control pleasure and happiness.
Exercise can help increase the levels of dopamine in your brain, which is why you often feel good after a workout.
Often appears as...
- release of dopamine
- dopamine levels
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A drug used in treating certain diseases such as Parkinson's by increasing dopamine amounts in the brain.
The doctor prescribed dopamine to manage the patient's Parkinson's symptoms.
Often appears as...
- prescribe dopamine
- dopamine treatment
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Associations
Dopamine is often linked to positive states like joy and reward, crucial in understanding its emotional context.
Winning a prize triggered a dopamine rush, making her feel elated.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Sources
Certain activities and foods are known to boost dopamine levels, which is a common point of discussion.
Dark chocolate is said to naturally increase dopamine.
Pro Tip 3/3Expression of Happiness
In everyday language, 'dopamine' can be casually used to express happiness or pleasure.
I get a dopamine boost just by listening to my favorite music.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Associations
Dopamine is often linked to positive states like joy and reward, crucial in understanding its emotional context.
Winning a prize triggered a dopamine rush, making her feel elated.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Sources
Certain activities and foods are known to boost dopamine levels, which is a common point of discussion.
Dark chocolate is said to naturally increase dopamine.
Pro Tip 3/3Expression of Happiness
In everyday language, 'dopamine' can be casually used to express happiness or pleasure.
I get a dopamine boost just by listening to my favorite music.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Associations
Dopamine is often linked to positive states like joy and reward, crucial in understanding its emotional context.
Winning a prize triggered a dopamine rush, making her feel elated.
Pro Tip 2/3Natural Sources
Certain activities and foods are known to boost dopamine levels, which is a common point of discussion.
Dark chocolate is said to naturally increase dopamine.
Pro Tip 3/3Expression of Happiness
In everyday language, 'dopamine' can be casually used to express happiness or pleasure.
I get a dopamine boost just by listening to my favorite music.
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How sugar affects the...
The major currency of our reward system is dopamine, an important chemical or neurotransmitter. There are many dopamine receptors in the forebrain, but they're not evenly distributed. Certain areas contain dense clusters of receptors, and these dopamine hot spots are a part of our reward system.
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National Geographic...
to actually do something to transform the brain by intervening in brain circuits. So, let me just explain. So every day when you move around, your brain is working to produce movements, and there's a very important chemical in your brain called dopamine that comes from the bottom of the brain
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The nightmare videos of...
Like, this is a strange world. Right? But the thing is, it's not adults who are watching these videos. It's kids, small children. These videos are like crack for little kids. There's something about the repetition, the constant little dopamine hit of the reveal, that completely hooks them in.
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How the food you eat...
dopamine, and serotonin. But getting to your brain cells is tricky, and amino acids have to compete for limited access. A diet with a range of foods helps maintain a balanced combination of brain messengers, and keeps your mood from getting skewed in one direction or the other.
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What is bipolar...
by stabilizing moods. These mood stabilizing medications work by decreasing abnormal activity in the brain, thereby strengthening the viable neural connections. Other frequently used medications include antipsychotics, which alter the effects of dopamine,
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Love and hormones PIPE...
expressive of dopamine and the estrogen system we are putting people into brain scanners we've done two studies so far I'm working on it absolutely daily we're beginning to map some of the brain circuitry of personality style and won't
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How do drugs affect the...
dilates pupils, and triggers the body's fight or flight response. Cocaine blocks the reuptake of dopamine and serotonin, pushing more into the network where they boost energy, create feelings of euphoria, and suppress appetites.
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Is there a disease that...
which probably makes them more likely to cross paths with a cat and help the parasite complete its life cycle. How does the parasite pull this off? Although the exact mechanism isn't known, toxo appears to increase dopamine,
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How does caffeine keep...
Caffeine can also boost positive feelings. In some neurons, the adenosine receptors are linked to receptors for another molecule called dopamine. One of dopamine's roles in the brain is to promote feelings of pleasure.
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How does alcohol make...
that extends from the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens, a region important for motivation. Like all addictive drugs, it prompts a squirt of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens which gives users a surge of pleasure.
Video examples
How sugar affects the...
The major currency of our reward system is dopamine, an important chemical or neurotransmitter. There are many dopamine receptors in the forebrain, but they're not evenly distributed. Certain areas contain dense clusters of receptors, and these dopamine hot spots are a part of our reward system.
Video examples
National Geographic...
to actually do something to transform the brain by intervening in brain circuits. So, let me just explain. So every day when you move around, your brain is working to produce movements, and there's a very important chemical in your brain called dopamine that comes from the bottom of the brain
Video examples
The nightmare videos of...
Like, this is a strange world. Right? But the thing is, it's not adults who are watching these videos. It's kids, small children. These videos are like crack for little kids. There's something about the repetition, the constant little dopamine hit of the reveal, that completely hooks them in.
Video examples
How the food you eat...
dopamine, and serotonin. But getting to your brain cells is tricky, and amino acids have to compete for limited access. A diet with a range of foods helps maintain a balanced combination of brain messengers, and keeps your mood from getting skewed in one direction or the other.
Video examples
What is bipolar...
by stabilizing moods. These mood stabilizing medications work by decreasing abnormal activity in the brain, thereby strengthening the viable neural connections. Other frequently used medications include antipsychotics, which alter the effects of dopamine,
Video examples
Love and hormones PIPE...
expressive of dopamine and the estrogen system we are putting people into brain scanners we've done two studies so far I'm working on it absolutely daily we're beginning to map some of the brain circuitry of personality style and won't
Video examples
How do drugs affect the...
dilates pupils, and triggers the body's fight or flight response. Cocaine blocks the reuptake of dopamine and serotonin, pushing more into the network where they boost energy, create feelings of euphoria, and suppress appetites.
Video examples
Is there a disease that...
which probably makes them more likely to cross paths with a cat and help the parasite complete its life cycle. How does the parasite pull this off? Although the exact mechanism isn't known, toxo appears to increase dopamine,
Video examples
How does caffeine keep...
Caffeine can also boost positive feelings. In some neurons, the adenosine receptors are linked to receptors for another molecule called dopamine. One of dopamine's roles in the brain is to promote feelings of pleasure.
Video examples
How does alcohol make...
that extends from the midbrain to the nucleus accumbens, a region important for motivation. Like all addictive drugs, it prompts a squirt of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens which gives users a surge of pleasure.
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Mike Posner
American Musician
I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.
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Warren Farrell
American Writer
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Jonathan Haidt
American Psychologist
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
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James Marsden
American Actor
No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.
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Greta Gerwig
American Actress
Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.
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Sam Fender
English Musician
I'm the worst. I get on my Instagram, put up a picture of my face looking all cheekbones and blue steel, and get massive dopamine hits when I see the likes come in.
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Keith Henson
American Scientist
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
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Michael Pollan
American Educator
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.
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Mike Birbiglia
American Comedian
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.
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Helen Fisher
American Scientist
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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Mike Posner
American Musician
I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.
Quote examples
Warren Farrell
American Writer
While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
Quote examples
Jonathan Haidt
American Psychologist
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
Quote examples
James Marsden
American Actor
No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.
Quote examples
Greta Gerwig
American Actress
Working is not instantly rewarding. It's a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it; I do it.
Quote examples
Sam Fender
English Musician
I'm the worst. I get on my Instagram, put up a picture of my face looking all cheekbones and blue steel, and get massive dopamine hits when I see the likes come in.
Quote examples
Keith Henson
American Scientist
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
Quote examples
Michael Pollan
American Educator
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.
Quote examples
Mike Birbiglia
American Comedian
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.
Quote examples
Helen Fisher
American Scientist
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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