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The Role of Dopamine in Our Brain's Communication
Dopamine: a special chemical in our brain that helps nerve cells communicate with each other.
- Produced in (substantia nigra, hypothalamus, and ventral tegmental area)
- Involved in (movement, motivation, reward, and pleasure)
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Learning and Memory
🧠 Plays key role in learning & memory.
🤔 How? By strengthening brain connections, aiding in information retention and recall.
❌ Improper dopamine functioning leads to cognitive disorders
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Motivation and Goal-directed Behavior
Dopamine drives goal achievement & staying motivated.💪
- Dopamine is involved in (motivation, decision-making, and goal-oriented behavior).
- It prioritizes tasks to help us achieve our goals.
- Dopamine levels increase when we (anticipate rewards - put necessary effort and ...
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Movement and Dopamine: A crucial link in Motor Control
Movement is controlled by signals between different parts of the brain. Dopamine helps with this, but if there's not enough dopamine, movement can be affected.
People with Parkinson's have tremors, rigidity, and slow movements because they ...
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Dopamine - A Powerful Brain Chemical
- Dopamine is important for (movement, reward, motivation, and mood regulation, learning, and addiction).
- Studying dopamine can help us understand . - This may lead to ).
- By understanding its role, we can gain insights into neurological and psychiatric disorders and more effec...
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Addiction and Dopamine
🧠 By repeated intake, messes brain & craves dose-drugs all the time.
🚫 Addiction is harmful and cause problems in your life.
👀 Watch out for these signs:
- 🚬 Keep hooked to drugs even when they cause problems
- 💔 Ignore important things to keep using drugs
- ...
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Mood and Emotion
- Plays crucial role in mood and emotional regulation
- Low levels (depression), High levels (mania and psychosis).
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Dopamine and Pleasure
It rewards our enjoyable experiences (eating tasty food or doing fun things), Motivates us to repeat these behaviors by creating a feeling of pleasure forming addictive patterns.
How dopamine works:
- Lnked to brain's reward system, released when we do something pl...
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Movement and Dopamine: A crucial link in Motor Control
Movement is controlled by signals between different parts of the brain. Dopamine helps with this, but if there's not enough dopamine, movement can be affected.
People with Parkinson's have tremors, rigidity, and slow movements because they ...
Dopamine - A Powerful Brain Chemical
- Dopamine is important for (movement, reward, motivation, and mood regulation, learning, and addiction).
- Studying dopamine can help us understand . - This may lead to ).
- By understanding its role, we can gain insights into neurological and psychiatric disorders and more effec...
Some neuroscience terms defined
The brain operates in a complex way with many parts intersecting and interacting with each other simultaneously. So, when you have that thought in the morning, it's likely that all these different component of your brain (prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, neurons, neurotransmitters, etc.) are all i...
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