Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An organic compound, C10H12N2O, formed from tryptophan and found in animal and human tissue, especially the brain, blood serum, and gastric mucous membranes, and active as a neurotransmitter and in vasoconstriction, stimulation of the smooth muscles, and regulation of cyclic body processes.
Wiktionary
- n. biochemistry An indoleamine neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine, that is involved in depression, appetite, etc., and is crucial in maintaining a sense of well-being, security, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a neurotransmitter involved in e.g. sleep and depression and memory
Etymologies
- From sero- + tonic + -in. (Wiktionary)
- sero- + ton(e) + -in. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Anxiety and depression occur when too much serotonin is reuptaken and spends its time hiding in the nerve cells.”
“These experiments, which might have been the last performed by the hands of Jessell, led to the isolation of genes encoding the seven transmembrane domain serotonin receptor,”
“If serotonin from the pineal does get back into the brain proper, it a must do so through such a circuitous route that many workers discredit this possibility.”
“For the past two decades, treatments for depression have been based primarily on a brain chemical called serotonin, which is also linked to mood.”
“It may be that this essential fatty acid helps to build brain receptors for neurotransmitters such as serotonin, which is known to improve mood.”
“Spending time with a BFF tamps down the "fight-or-flight" stress hormones and helps a woman's body create serotonin, which is the feel good brain neurotransmitter that keeps depression at bay and mood even.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Deville: Girlfriends Over Husbands?
“The current generation of anti-depressant drugs, which change the way the brain absorbs a neurotransmitter called serotonin, are probably no more effective than placebos.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Kuttner: A Depressing Story You Need to Read
“People suffering from depression so characteristically have lower serotonin levels that an entire class of anti-depressive medications called serotonin uptake inhibitors including Prozac, Paxil, and Zooloft have been developed that raise brain levels of serotonin.”
“It helps to raise levels of the feel-good and calming brain chemical, serotonin, which is often low in PMS sufferers.”
The Huffington Post: Hyla Cass, M.D.: You Don't Have to Live with PMS!
“They work by preventing a brain chemical called serotonin from being reabsorbed by neurons.”
The Wall Street Journal: Depressed Pilots Can Fly on Medication, FAA Decides
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘serotonin’.
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henryar's list
marmoleum, menagerie, cyan, ochre, pilfer, discombobulate, loquacious, iridescent, amethyst, derelict, botulism, equilibrium and 240 more...
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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 more...
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BIOL - the brain
tumor, retina, tremor, arousal, clot, ruptured blood ve..., pressure on a blo..., brain region, comprehension of ..., production of mea..., autonomic nervous..., conservation of t... and 564 more...
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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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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 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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mattehart's Words
truculent, epidemiologist, dopamine, serotonin, neurotransmitters, norepinephrine, pilloried, anachronism, maven, ornery, arbitrage, opaque and 5 more...
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Health Slayer Industry
Well, it's not all bad. But too much is.
analgesia, analgesic, resveratrol, tachycardia, tachycardic, polyphenols, allele, allelic, tzaraath, reuptake, serotonin, nostrum and 86 more...
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Psychonautica
Psychedelic and entheogenic terms.
empathogen, epiphany, psychoactive, psychonaut, entheogen, ethnobotany, euphoria, ego death, hallucinogen, nootropic, psychopharmacology, narc and 16 more...
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things i like
activities, objects, people, food
friends, trying on dresses, agatha christie, clarinet, yaya dacosta, bangs, flirting, walking, gerunds, big band, antm, film soundtracks and 78 more...
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It's "Just" Hormonal...
A list of human hormones
melatonin, serotonin, thyroxine, triiodothyronine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, dopamine, antimullerian hor..., adiponectin, adrenocorticotrop..., angiotensinogen, vasopressin and 55 more...
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brain words
synapse, pons, cerebellum, medulla oblongata, optic chiasm, myelin, hypothalamus, thalamus, telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon, zona incerta and 87 more...
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Scientific Terminology
Don't use these at home.
autotrophic, encephalography, electroencephalog..., phenylalanine, oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine
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infirmary
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