These eight pathways through which lifestyle influences neurotransmitter function highlight the remarkable plasticity of brain chemistry. Rather than static systems determined solely by genetics ...

And through pathways of nerve connection to other ... Through the actions of the neurotransmitter dopamine, the brain become extremely efficient in wanting the drug effects, and eventually becomes ...

The brain of humans and other animals is ... "Another exciting direction is identifying specific neurotransmitters and molecular pathways within the IC that mediate these processes, which could ...

A team of researchers in China and Japan have investigated which brain regions and neurotransmitters are ... and reward pathways. Within this structure, the team focused on an area called the ...

False-colour positron emission tomography (PET) scan highlighting limbic areas in a human brain. A receptor for the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA is visualised here in regions of the brain ...

The scans revealed that the difficult-task group had higher levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate in that area of the brain at the end of the day when compared to the easy-task group. That result ...