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Are there studies on the effect of nicotine patches on dream vividness and dream recall?
Here's the only one that's easy to find in google scholar, but there might be more:
Page, F., Coleman, G., & Conduit, R. (2006). The effect of transdermal nicotine patches on sleep and dreams. ...
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How does acute tryptophan depletion work?
don't the neurons already have plenty of serotonin stored in the axon vesicles from which the neurotransmission happens
Sure, but neurotransmission is happening all the time. It's not uncommon for a ...
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Are inhibitory synapses governed by different chemicals than excitatory synapses?
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I cannot give a conclusive answer, but if you are talking about a schoolbook neuron with different neurons synapsing onto it, then excitation is indeed generally mediated by another ...
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Which parts of the brain are affected by dopamine?
Quoting my thesis:
CNS Dopamine/DA projections primarily emerge from two subcortical basal ganglia nuclei in the brain stem, travelling along three major pathways (Purves et al., 2004).
The ...
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What causes dopamine in our body
Allow me to extend a more empathetic answer; stack exchange is great, but the rigid responses are sometimes hard to stomach.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that basically works as a messenger ...
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What causes dopamine in our body
The way that you are describing dopamine fundamentally misunderstands how neurotransmitters work.
It makes sense to talk about hormones as elevated or reduced above a baseline level. This does not ...
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Are there specific neurotransmitters for specific sensations?
No. For example, the neurotransmitter at the first stage of auditory processing (the inner hair cell VII cranial nerve synapse) and visual processing (rod and cone synapses with a bipolar cells) is ...
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Are there specific neurotransmitters for specific sensations?
There are neurotransmitters that are associated with specific functions within a neural circuit, but I would not associate a specific neurotransmitter with a specific sensation. There is also more ...
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Does smoking counterbalance the effect of Belladonna?
Disclaimer: I do not work with receptor bindings very often.
First point binding sites...
Both Atropine and Nicotine bind to Cholinergic receptors. However receptor binding is not competitive as the ...
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Which parts of the brain are affected by dopamine?
Parts of the brain affected by dopamine
Dopamine exerts different effects in different regions and pathways throughout the brain. In the mesolimbic pathway, dopamine is believed to be involved in ...
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Is the amount of learning modulated by reward transmitters?
A bit of context
In mammalian brains, a main neurotransmiter linked with reward is Dopamine. This molecule is produced in the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) and in the Substantia Nigra (SN).
In a very ...
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Is the amount of learning modulated by reward transmitters?
The effect of dopamine signaling is one of the areas where computational neuroscience has provided insight into brain mechanisms, specifically via Reinforcement Learning (RL) models.
Based off this ...
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Why seemingly all the neuronal membrane-bound receptor are exclusively GPCR or highly homologous to GPCR family?
I think you're confused about proteins that are GPCRs versus having homology. GABA-B is another that is a GPCR (it is not particularly related to GABA-A). These are also called metabotropic receptors.
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Do psychiatrists and researchers themselves don't have an idea how antidepressants work?
Haha, yep. We don't know how depression or SSRIs work. We have hypotheses for both schizophrenia and depression - the dopamine hypothesis and the serotonin hypothesis.
While I was conducting my ...
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Is Dr. Russo’s “endocannabinoid deficiency” a valid theory?
I'd say it is a low-impact theory. The original (2004) paper in which this was proposed has around 60 citations in Google Scholar. That's pretty low for a paper like this (if the theory were ...
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Aesthetic pleasure hormone or neurotransmitter
μ-opioid receptors (MOR) have been demonstrated to be involved in our perception of beautiful faces (https://www.medicaldaily.com/seeing-pretty-faces-rewards-brain-perceiving-beauty-all-chemical-...
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Causality regarding neurotransmitter imbalance and depression
I have what is mostly a frame-challenge to your question as an answer: the simple "neurotransmitter imbalance" hypothesis is a bit outdated, and it hasn't been strongly influential in a research ...
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How can the action of drugs be determined by so few neurotransmitters?
The brief answer to your question is that:
Serotonin to be clear is not a primary neurotransmitter, as it is not a primary driver or inhibitor of action potential generation --- the core signal by ...
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How do neurons know where to send transmitters?
When a neuron fires an action potential, it doesn't "select" a target. It releases neurotransmitter (somewhat probabilistically, as vesicle release has a probability <1 at most synapses) ...
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Is there a mechanical/vibrational communication method between pre- and post-synaptic terminals in addition to chemical and electrical synapses?
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Action potentials travelling through the axon are accompanied by a mechanical displacement of the axonal membrane.
Background
Multiple studies have shown that a mechanical displacement of ...
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Neurotransmitters by neuron types
Wikipedia has a comprehensive list of neurotransmitters, categorized as (a short list):
Amino acids: glutamate, aspartate, D-serine, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glycine
Gasotransmitters: nitric oxide ...
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Triptans and SSRIs
triptans could help boost the efficacy of SSRIs
There is minimal evidence for this Chris. One of the reasons for that is that there is a limit to how much serotonin is released for the nerve cell. ...
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Does the act of neural-repair fire off neurons?
Question: Does neural repair result in firing neurons?
This is a difficult question. Because a repair occurs when and where there is a damage. If there are abnormal firings of neurons, it will be ...
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experimental tracking and treating bipolar disorder
I am not from a pure field of neuroscience so I did a bit of research. (Part put in bold by me is the bit which pertains to Bipolar Disorder (BPD))
Simon N Young of McGill University in Montréal, ...
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Does consumption of amino acid supplements improve human executive function and self-regulation in ADHD cases?
There's a recent negative study: Bergwerff et al. (2016) "No Tryptophan, Tyrosine and Phenylalanine Abnormalities in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder":
This study is the ...
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Which parts of the brain are affected by dopamine?
No, unlike norepinephrine and serotonin, dopamine's pathway is limited.actually it affects two part of cognition, reward and motor functions.
As part of the reward pathway, dopamine is manufactured in ...
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How do neuro transmitters interact with neurons in the brain?
Actually it's a bit complicated but in simple terms :
Neurotransmitters are stored in a synapse in synaptic vesicles, clustered beneath the membrane in the axon terminal located at the presynaptic ...
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