The brain doesn't just want what it enjoys. It wants things for the sake of it.

all types of addictions (substances or behavioral) mediate the effect of dopamine and are affected by dopamine. Many medical and psychiatric conditions involve neurotransmitter dysfunction.

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning ... which is based on the type of neurotransmitter released. Excitatory synapses send ...

Their primary function is to carry neurotransmitters across these membranes and to direct their further transport to specific intracellular locations. There are more than twenty types of ...

There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again. For example, noradrenaline.

They observed hundreds of presynaptic terminals simultaneously releasing the neurotransmitter. It turns out that all the compounds they had made covered a range of lipophilicities, and FFN511 was ...

However, a series of weak stimuli can combine, increasing the amount of neurotransmitter that is released. This results in enough neurotransmitter being diffused across the synaptic cleft to ...