For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...

Study: Smartphone-based prediction of dopaminergic deficit in prodromal and manifest Parkinson’s disease. Image Credit: mozakim / Shutterstock.com Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative ...

A McGill-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how ...

Explore dopamine's role in movement and how it challenges long-standing theories about motor control and Parkinson's disease ...

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Neuroscience researcher Mia Soviero says this morning routine helps boost her mood and increase her dopamine levels.

Dopaminergic synapse, action of dopaminergic agonists, COMT inhibitors, and MAO-B. Treatments for Parkinson's disease are aimed at increasing the level of dopamine in the synaptic cleft. (Photo by: ...

Travel expands your horizons and improves your life in more ways than one. Going places can also ward off "brain rot" from ...

Christopher Bergland crossing the finish line of the Triple Ironman (7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike, 78.6-mile run) in 38 hours and 46 minutes. Tonic levels of dopamine are required to achieve most ...

A combination of two drugs- one for smoking cessation and another for depression- appear to work synergistically to treat alcohol use disorder. The corresponding study was published in The Lancet ...

If you replay arguments long after they end, your brain may be seeking reward, not resolution. Here’s how dopamine shapes ...

A new study shows dopamine isn’t the brain’s movement “gas pedal” after all. Instead of setting speed or strength, it quietly ...