Dopamine is the neurotransmitter everyone has heard of. Dopamine existed long—I mean really long—before there were humans. It can be traced back at least 600 million years in the history of life, ...

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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 ...

Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The discovery turns a century-old view of dopamine on its head and could ...

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You’ve probably felt it before: that euphoric feeling after biting into one of your favorite foods. Your eyes roll back, you ...

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter — a chemical made in your brain. It carries messages to your nerve cells. Dopamine is also a hormone made in your adrenal glands that gets released into your bloodstream ...

Dopamine drops naturally as we age. In fact, according to a report in the journal Oxidative Medicine and Cell Longevity, each decade we lose up to 10% of the cells that produce and process dopamine. 2 ...