Help your brain help you boost your happy hormones. To explain exactly how these "happiness" chemicals work, I spoke to Loretta Breuning, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of . Below ...

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Dopamine is a hormone and neurotransmitter in the brain involved in mood, attention, reward and motivation. Mary Katherine Wynn/Dreamstime/TNS ROCHESTER, Minn. — You likely are accustomed to ...

American author and popularizer, analyzes for the second time the mechanisms of dopamine in his new book Dopamine under control (Península). He does so from a practical perspective in which, "without ...

Picture this: you wake up in the morning and feel like you own the world. You are full of energy and positivity. And you ...

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Researchers have discovered why cognitive performance improves after exercise: the ‘feel good’ hormone and neurotransmitter dopamine. They found that exercise released dopamine, which produced a ...

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Why do some people who try drugs struggle with substance abuse while others don’t? This question has long puzzled scientists. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) explored the complex ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- You likely are accustomed to encountering a range of menus in daily life, but there is one that may be new to you: a dopamine menu. Dr. Robert Wilfahrt, a family medicine physician ...