Dopamine is a so-called messenger substance or neurotransmitter that conveys signals between neurons. It not only controls mental and emotional responses but also motor reactions. Dopamine is particularly known as being the "happy hormone".
Date Posted: September 2, 2016
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If you're speaking to me, it's not just what you say but how you say it that matters. A new study finds that dogs also pick up on these important, yet separate details. And there's more. Not only does this study add to our knowledge of how dogs ...
Sep 1
Categories: Other
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The power of non-sexual touching by women lies in the fact that both men and women respond positively to warmth and friendliness from women, but not necessarily from men. Touch can affect people’s tendency to comply with requests (a phenomenon ...
Sep 1
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Other
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Scientists already knew that getting some decent shut-eye after studying helps to consolidate learning, but new research suggests that sleeping in between study sessions is even more effective.
Aug 31
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We all know that we can quickly lose cardiovascular endurance if we stop exercising for a few weeks, but what impact does the cessation of exercise have on our brains?
Aug 31
Categories: Cognitive Problems Amnesia / Dementia
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First, it is important to ask how IQ and health could be connected. Social components are relatively obvious: lower IQ might mean lower level of knowledge about healthy living, for instance. Also, the gradual progression of some chronic diseases may ...
Aug 31
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Conventional notions have described aging as an ongoing process of physical and cognitive decline, with mental health mirroring the downward trend. However, a new study by researchers at the University of California-San Diego School of Medicine ...
Aug 30
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues, Happiness, Life Purpose / Meaning / ...
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Why do some people want to live a very long time, while others would prefer to die relatively young? In a latest study, a team of researchers investigated how long young and middle-aged adults in the United States say they want to live in relation ...
Aug 30
Categories: Health / Illness / Medical Issues, Health Psychology, Life Purpose / ...
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When strangers meet, they jump to a lot of conclusions about each other extremely quickly - a process that psychologists call "thin slicing" in reference to the thinness of the evidence upon which such sweeping inferences are made. For instance, ...
Aug 29
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In Hong Kong's sprawling North District, superstition and social stigma hamper efforts to tackle mental illness, and the lack of space for counselling makes matters worse for staff with heavy caseloads.
Aug 29
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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We usually think of boredom as a state to be avoided. The existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard even went so far as to say that "boredom is the root of all evil". But in a new paper in Qualitative Research in Psychology, Tim Lomas at the ...
Aug 27
Categories: Emptiness, Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
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Getting some sleep in between study sessions may make it easier to recall what you studied and relearn what you've forgotten, even 6 months later. While studies have shown that both repeated practice and sleep can help improve memory, there is ...
Aug 27
Categories: Learning Difficulties, Workplace Issues
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I took my Playbill. I found my seat. For nine months, I'd waited for it- the day printed on my ticket to see the hit Broadway show "Hamilton!"Just one thing slightly nagged at me: The pressure to love it as much as the massive fan base already ...
Aug 26
Categories: Happiness
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More than 100 million people worldwide take selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as Prozac and Zoloft, to treat depression, anxiety and related conditions, but these drugs have a common and mysterious side effect: they can worsen ...
Aug 26
Categories: Anxiety, Depression
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In tough times, people want more in a leader than intelligence, integrity, or the ability to build really tall walls. They want someone who can make a compelling pitch and inspire a sense of urgency - someone with charisma. For decades, scholars ...
Aug 26
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In his Fred Kavli Keynote Address at the 2016 APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University, explains the science behind dishonesty. Through his many experiments ...
Aug 25
Categories: Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance, Relationships & ...
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