Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, Columbia University and the University of San Francisco, have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which dopamine, a key brain chemical vital for movement ...

At long last, Robyn has returned. The Swedish dance-pop genius is back with “Dopamine,” her first original solo single since 2018’s Honey. The buoyant song was produced by her longtime collaborator ...

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Big Tobacco once looked unstoppable. It made billions by exploiting a quirk of human biology: our brains’ craving for nicotine. With the help of advertising that cast cigarettes as glamorous, the ...

Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer and Research Supervisor, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney Advice about cutting down on dopamine is everywhere right now. From “dopamine ...

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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 ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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In a world in which our dopamine is often depleted or out of whack, we’d be well advised to seek natural, easy ways to increase it. After all, dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role ...