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A monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system
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dopamine
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Dopamine (contracted from 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine ) is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays several important roles in the brain and body. It is an amine synthesized by removing a carboxyl group from a molecule ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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1959, from DOPA, the amino acid (from first letter of elements of dioxyphenylalanine ), + -amine .
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n. a monoamine neurotransmitter found in the brain and essential for the normal functioning of the central nervous system; as a drug (trade names Dopastat and Intropin) it is used to treat shock and hypotension [syn: Dopastat , Intropin ]
Usage examples of dopamine.
Cocaine has a high addictive potential because of the speed with which it blocks the dopamine transporters.
Raging through his brain cells was a storm of neurotransmitters, dopamine and taurine and norepinephrine, this time of a slightly different concentration and mixture than before.
Motilin, dopamine, taurine and many other neurotransmitters cascaded in a never-ending flood.
It is the substantia nigra that supplies the neurotransmitter dopamine to a larger area in the center of the brain, called the striatum, which controls movement and motor skills of the human body.
Stronger drugs, such as the opiates, force the release of vast amounts of dopamine, flooding the pleasure centres in the brain - leading to intense euphoria.
I was last in line the synthetic dopamine would reach my brain before I reached the doc.
By tagging a chemical, methylphenidate, that binds to the dopamine transporter - just like cocaine - and imaging it in her scanner, she has managed to measure the dopamine potential of cocaine users versus non-cocaine users.
The three brains are said to be distinguished neuroanatomically and functionally, and contain strikingly different distributions of the neurochemicals dopamine and cholinesterase.
Those drinks were chock full of oxytocin, dopamine, norepinephrine, phenylethylamine and God knows what else.
The intense anger and schizophrenic behavior of people who have 'freaked out' on amphetamines are the result of the amphetamines causing the brain to produce way more than the normal amount of dopamine, a chemical that the emotional brain normally produces only in very small amounts.
They’ve been treating it as they would catatonia, or schizophrenia—giving them a serotonin dopamine complex, limbic stimulants .
And what were the minds of the Presences after all but vast arrays of dislocations, molecular vacancies, self-reproducing line, and planar defects generating energy along infinitesimal fault lines, molecular neurons rather than biological ones, atoms of chromium instead of dopamine, with vacancies in the infinite grid serving as receptor cells.
Lucy can’t spend the rest of her life paranoid that people are going to find out she has a brain tumor and is on some type of dopamine agonist to keep it under control.
What Grains does is to stimulate the production of dopamine, the brain's main chemical messenger.
Persuading E. coli to churn out hormones like insulin or dopamine is simple enough.