neurotransmitters

• “If schizophrenia can be explained (and controlled) by the presence or absence of certain neurotransmitters, then we don't bother talking about demons possessing schizophrenics.”

  The Huffington Post: Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is So Very Human (Part 2)

• “Baclofen works by blocking overstimulated neurotransmitters from the brain to the spinal cord.”

  Cerebral palsy treatment

• “Sibutramine limits the uptake of chemicals called neurotransmitters like norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine into nerve endings—a mechanism similar to that of many medications used to treat depression.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Flex Diet

• “To stay sharp with age, you have to help your all-important brain chemicals, called neurotransmitters, remain in abundance.”

  The Huffington Post: Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.: Is Any Memory Loss Normal With Age?

• “Drugs such as Ritalin and Concerta are considered stimulants and appear to boost and balance brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, which helps address symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: ADHD Guidelines Issued for 4 and Up

• “Most medications prescribed for depression belong to a newer class of drugs called second-generation antidepressants SGA, which inhibit chemicals called neurotransmitters.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cutting Allergy Shots

• “All of these organs respond not only to sex hormones fitting into their own hormone receptors directly, but to proteins called neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, dopamine, and acetylcholine.”

  The Huffington Post: T.S. Wiley: Estrogen Dilemma: There Is No Dilemma When You Know the Details

• “• In order to work properly, the brain must have the right balance of chemicals called neurotransmitters.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Chemistry of Calm

• “It was later discovered that there is a synapse, a space between nerve endings where chemicals called neurotransmitters help to convey the signal between one nerve cell and another.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Chemistry of Calm

• “These age-related changes in mental function are caused by a slowdown in the production of key chemicals in the brain, called neurotransmitters, which are involved in learning and memory.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl Mindell’s New Herb Bible

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