Reviewed by Psychology Today Staff Dopamine is known as the feel-good neurotransmitter—a chemical that ferries information between neurons. The brain releases it when we eat food that we crave or while we havesex, contributing to feelings of pleasure and satisfaction as part of the reward system...
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a series of discoveries were made that made scientists suspect that the widespread image of dopamine as a “pleasure chemical” was incorrect. In one of these trials, three individuals with deep and intractabledepressionhad, as a last resort, electrodes implanted into the brain's ...
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“slackers.” They found that people willing to work hard had higher dopamine levels in the striatum and prefrontal cortex — two areas known to impact motivation and reward. Among slackers, dopamine was present in the anterior insula, an area of the brain involved in emotion and risk ...
Auditory and visual hallucinations — perceptions of hearing or seeing something without observing external sensory stimuli — are central symptoms of psychotic disorders and are thought by some to be caused by excessive dopamine in the brain. However, evaluating the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis...
The review focuses on the dACC, basal ganglia, and thalamus. We then introduce a model that considers how the abnormal decision-making network can contribute to the psychopathology of schizophrenia. 展开 关键词: Schizophrenia Psychopathology Psychiatry Psychology Antipsychotic Neurocognition Pharmacological ...
You could call dopamine the most misunderstood neurochemical in the brain. It's allegedly the cause of people getting addicted to drugs, chocolate or video games. But what does really dopamine do?
The dopamine (DA) hypothesis of schizophrenia (DHS) has, since its inception over 30 years ago, been among the most prominent etiologic theories in psychia... KS Kendler,KF Schaffner - 《Philosophy Psychiatry & Psychology》 被引量: 55发表: 2011年 Dopamine receptor excess and mouse madness. ...