Movement and Dopamine: A crucial link in Motor Control

Food-seeking learning is driven by dopamine, a neurotransmitter connected with motivation.

This is a hormone that is stimulated in the brain when your body does something rewarding, such as eating. Dopamine is one of the chemical signals that passes information between neurons to tell your...

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)

Stress can cause mental disorders because it impacts the neurotransmitters responsible for relaying messages between the brain and other body parts. For example, serotonin is a neurotransmitter that regulates moods, and cortisol is known as the stress hormone. When we experience prolonged periods...