Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A monoamine neurotransmitter formed in the brain by the decarboxylation of dopa and essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. A reduction in its concentration within the brain is associated with Parkinson's disease.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry A neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention, learning, and the brain’s pleasure and reward system.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
Etymologies
- dop(a) + amine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But the connection that scientists are making are saying basically this: when you check your information, when you get a buzz in your pocket, when you hear a ring you get what they call a dopamine squirt.”
“For the first time, researchers have defined this phenomenon, which they call dopamine agonist withdrawal syndrome, or DAWS.”
“God loves us do we were given built in dopamine and endorphins to experience God.”
Friendly religious questions for Christians and other monotheists
“Neuroscientists know that dopamine is important in both systems -- learning and pleasure -- but haven't yet worked out the explicit tie between them.”
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“Neuropsychologists have discovered that high levels of certain dopamine strains (D5 I believe) cause women to assume sexually receptive postures.”
“The real strength of their invention and insight comes out of the fact that dopamine is a very reactive molecule.”
“It binds here, releases a hormone known as dopamine, and that makes people feel good.”
“Natural increases in dopamine occur after unexpected natural rewards; however, with learning these increases shift from the time of reward delivery to cueing stimuli.”
“Cocaine and other addictive drugs, however, produce a momentary increase in dopamine through neuropharmacological mechanisms, thereby continuing to drive learning, forcing the brain to over-select choices which lead to getting drugs.”
“Owning pets, playing musical instruments, being part of a family, having a job, etc. are all activities that relate to long-term dopamine production.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dopamine’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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Psychology
Chapter 1
rigorous, occurrence, maze, divers, intellectual, expansion, all in all, sensation, introspection, radical, orientation, nurture and 174 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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BIOL - the brain
ruptured blood ve..., clot, pressure on a blo..., tumor, brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t..., catecholamine, arousal, regulation of sleep and 564 more...
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mental (neuro)
neuro science
( randomness )
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Drugs
Takes 12-15 years and $800 million to bring a drug to the market. For every 10,000 compounds that go through animal studies, 10 will go to human trials (3 phases) to get 1 to the market.
In g...ephedrine, penicillin, librium, tetracycline, xenobiotic, teratogenic, labile sites, cholinergic, prostaglandin, patient compliance, GABA, barbiturates and 72 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
polymorph's Words
pornerastic, yeaux, enantiadromia, synchronicity, transubstantiation, sensimilla, slough, scaphism, symbiosis, prolix, orgiastic, cryptogamic and 245 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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Did Someone Say a Dinner Party?
It's a hazardous world out there...poison all around. I've tried not to include too many drugs (including medicines) and have ignored the fact that too much of anything can poison you. We're going ...
cyanide, botulinum, chlorine, mustard gas, hydrogen cyanide gas, mercury, arsenic, ricin, strychnine, aconite, acetic acid, acetone and 147 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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Medical
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nfrank's Words
antediluvian, equivocate, inchoate, denouement, effulgent, edify, endemic, palimpsest, apropos, circumnavigate, circumlocution, cognoscente and 484 more...
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calendrical, distal, egalitarian, in situ, multivariate, cryophilous, refutation, replicable, conchoidal, seeress, gigacycle, filamentous and 89 more...
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mattehart's Words
truculent, epidemiologist, dopamine, serotonin, neurotransmitters, norepinephrine, pilloried, anachronism, maven, ornery, arbitrage, opaque and 5 more...
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The Brain
somatosensory cortex, optic chiasm, cerebral hemisphere, dura matter, meninges, neurotransmitters, proprioception, amygdala, axon, blood-brain barrier, hippocampus, fissures and 49 more...
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