All 4 Uses of
dopamine
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The Tipping Point
- For example, depression is believed to be the result, at least in part, of a problem in the production of certain key brain chemicals, in particular the neurotransmitters known as serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.†
Chpt 7dopamine = a neurotransmitter found in the brain
- Nicotine appears to do exactly the same thing with the other two key neurotransmitters — dopamine and norepinephrine.†
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- "The dopamine that nicotine releases goes to the prefrontal cortex of the brain," explains Johnston.†
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- It increases your dopamine, so smokers don't have the desire to smoke, then it replaces some of the norepinephrine, so they don't have the agitation, the withdrawal symptoms.†
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Definition:
a neurotransmitter found in the brain and associated with movement, attention, learning, and the brain's pleasure and reward system