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Fri Sep 5

• Seed: A New State of Mind

Thu Sep 4

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Wed Sep 3

• Science Centric | News | One sleepless night increases dopamine in the human brain
• Midbrain Dopamine Neurons: Projection Target Determines Action Potential Duration and Dopamine D2 Receptor Inhibition -- Margolis et al. 28 (36): 8908 -- Journal of Neuroscience
• Placebo effect. We should all wish that we are placebo responders as it would be tremendously helpful. It needs to slough the guillibility association.: "In patients reporting pain relief, PET scans showed an activation of their opioid receptors, where both narcotics and endorphins ply their trade, and a decrease in activity in several brain regions vital for feeling pain. The scans also showed that the placebo effect isn't confined to endorphin release; the neurotransmitt er dopamine receptor sites critical for the brain's primary reward system also lighted up. In an elegant follow-up study, Zubieta and colleagues looked at how subject expectation of pain relief was associated with a more generalized expectation of good results. The volunteers were invited to play a game." Game - expectation "Scans confirmed that the activation of brain reward regions correlated with both general anticipation of winning and degree of expectation of pain relief. "
• Incentive motivation is associated with striatal d...[Biol Psychol. 2008] - PubMed Result: Makes sense. Positive incentive motivation associated with higher D2 receptor availability in the left hemisphere.

Mon Sep 1

• FuturePundit: Low Latent Inhibition Plus High Intelligence Leads To High Creativity?
• Dopamine: Parkinson's Disease and ADHD to Smoking and Paranoia

Sun Aug 31

• Memory Loss May Be Reversed With New Treatment Developed At Yale: D1 agonist

Fri Aug 29

• NIMH · Science News from 2008 · Depression Patients' Brain Circuitry Makes Them Vulnerable to Relapse

Thu Aug 28

• Basolateral Amygdala Neurons Facilitate Reward-Seeking Behavior by Exciting Nucleus Accumbens Neurons: Neuron -- Ambroggi et al.: The BLA and DA projections to the NAc interact to promote the reward-seeking behavioral response. BLA neuronal responses to cues precede those of NAc neurons. Cue-evoked excitation of NAc neurons depends on BLA input. Thus, BLA input is required for DA to enhance the cue-evoked response of NAc neurons and this enhanced firing promotes reward-seeking behavior.
• FMRP Acts as a Key Messenger for Dopamine Modulation in the Forebrain: Neuron -- Wang et al.: The fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) is an RNA-binding protein that controls translational efficiency and regulates synaptic plasticity. This study shows that FMRP is involved in dopamine (DA) modulation of synaptic potentiation.
• Drugs and Pharmacology, Tenth Edition: Looking for the latest news about drugs and pharmacology? Here is all the information on novel biological approaches to battling memory impairment to the bloody side effects of taking SSRIs and NSAIDs together.

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