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Serotonin in sentence

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A single workout that you do will immediately increase levels of neurotransmitters like dopamine, serotonin and noradrenaline.
What they found was a series of mutations in a gene called SPR, which is responsible for producing serotonin, among other things.
So on top of L-Dopa, they gave these kids a serotonin precursor drug, and they're effectively normal now.
This, for example, is an antibody staining against serotonin transporters in a slice of mouse brain.
And you've heard of serotonin, of course, in the context of diseases like depression and anxiety.
And by raising levels of serotonin, you suppress the dopamine circuit.
A few years ago, my colleagues and I were interested in how a brain chemical called serotonin would influence people's decisions in social situations.
Specifically, we wanted to know how serotonin would affect the way people react when they're treated unfairly.
We manipulated people's serotonin levels by giving them this really disgusting-tasting artificial lemon-flavored drink that works by taking away the raw ingredient for serotonin in the brain.
LSD and psilocybin both function like serotonin in the brain, binding directly to one type of serotonin receptor in particular.
Patients with schizophrenia often have elevated levels of serotonin in the brain.
And antipsychotic drugs relieve symptoms of schizophrenia by blocking the same serotonin receptors LSD and psilocybin bind to.
That’s because hormones can influence the production of certain chemicals in the brain, like serotonin.
You can ask about what causes it biochemically: neuroscience, serotonin, all that stuff.
The other piece of the puzzle is that OCD is associated with low levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that communicates between brain structures and helps regulate vital processes, such as mood, aggression, impulse control, sleep, appetite, body temperature and pain.
The good news is there are effective treatments for OCD, including medications, which increase serotonin in the brain by limiting its reabsorption by brain cells, behavioral therapy that gradually desensitizes patients to their anxieties, and in some cases, electroconvulsive therapy, or surgery, when OCD doesn't respond to other forms of treatment.
Low levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter connected to arousal, may make depressed individuals less attentive to new information.
On a more microscale, depression is associated with a few things: the abnormal transmission or depletion of certain neurotransmitters, especially serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine, blunted circadian rhythms, or specific changes in the REM and slow-wave parts of your sleep cycle, and hormone abnormalities, such as high cortisol and deregulation of thyroid hormones.
That's because cytokines and prostaglandin can reach even higher structures in your brain, disrupting the activity of neurotransmitters, like glutamate, endorphins, serotonin, and dopamine.
The complex combinations of compounds in food can stimulate brain cells to release mood-altering norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin.
I study the biology of personality, and I've come to believe that we've evolved four very broad styles of thinking and behaving, linked with the dopamine, serotonin, testosterone and estrogen systems.
And two, they both increase levels of serotonin, which is a chemical signal in the brain, or a neurotransmitter.
And those two things together, right, one or the two, may not have been that important, but the two together meant that we had to develop safer drugs, and that serotonin seemed like a pretty good place to start.
So we developed drugs to more specifically focus on serotonin, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, so the SSRIs, the most famous of which is Prozac.
And it was this flexibility in our thinking that let us recognize that iproniazid and imipramine could be repurposed in this way, which led us to the serotonin hypothesis, which we then, ironically, fixated on.
This is brain signaling, serotonin, from an SSRI commercial.
So we've focused on serotonin now for the past 30 years, often to the exclusion of other things.
We still have no cures, and what if serotonin isn't all there is to depression?
In the past few years, doctors have discovered probably what is the first truly new antidepressant since the SSRIs, Calypsol, and this drug works very quickly, within a few hours or a day, and it doesn't work on serotonin.
This study from 1999 used blood tests to confirm that the serotonin levels of the newly in love very closely resembled the serotonin levels of people who had been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.