Sentences with phrase «certain brain neurotransmitters»

Addyi, known to scientists as flibanserin, is thought to work by changing the balance of certain brain neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin.

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MSG is approximately 78 percent free glutamic acid, the same neurotransmitter that your brain, nervous system, eyes, pancreas, and other organs use to initiate certain processes in your body.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that acts within certain brain circuitries to help manage functions ranging from movement to emotion.
Many researchers are also hopeful about clinical trials under way with drugs that block certain receptors for glutamate, the main neurotransmitter in the brain that excites neural activity.
Medication Dispute Recent findings about deficits in brain function and neurotransmitters make it clear why certain drugs are likely treatments.
Dronabinol may prevent or reduce sleep apnea episodes by stimulating certain neurotransmitter activity in the brain.
But the current excitment about Prozac proves one thing for certain: you don't have to understand the brain, or the roots of human behaviour, in order to make drugs that can interfere very specifically with its neurotransmitters and the receptors they act on.
Earlier research had linked aggression to low levels of an enzyme called monoamine oxidase A (MAO - A), which breaks down certain neurotransmitters in the brain.
The drug works by increasing the concentration of certain neurotransmitters in the brain that control reasoning, problem solving and other behaviors.
Seiden, 72, was one of the world's experts on how drugs, especially the amphetamines, could selectively damage certain neurons, particularly those that produced the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin — chemical signals that relay messages within the brain.
«We think that Homer1a is a traffic cop of sorts,» says Huganir, explaining that the protein evaluates levels of certain neurotransmitters and chemicals to determine when the brain is «quiet enough to begin scaling down.»
Klotho's benefits may be due to its effect on a certain type of neurotransmitter receptor in the brain, called NMDA, that is crucially involved in learning and memory.
Experts suspect the disorder is caused by abnormalities in certain areas of the brain, the circuits that connect them, and the neurotransmitters (brain chemicals) that transmit messages among brain cells.
The brain, for example, requires a certain level of amino acids to create neurotransmitters.
The condition itself occurs in a specific area of the brain due to dysfunction of certain neurotransmitters (chemical messengers).
The brain uses certain amino acids to produce neurotransmitters (chemical messengers) that dictate how you feel, act, and function.
In short, the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA [an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes] levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.
This wave causes the release of neurotransmitters in certain parts of the brain.
A laboratory animal study published in the October 2003 issue of the «Journal of Ethnopharmacology» found that holy basil leaf extract exerted pain - relieving effects at the central nervous system level, meaning that it modulated levels of certain neurotransmitters in the brain that help process pain messages.
Amino acids have several different purposes in our lives, from forming the building blocks of proteins and acting as neurotransmitters in our brains, to being used in the manufacture of fertilizer, biodegradable plastics and certain drugs.
There are also some signs showing that BCAAs compete with certain neurotransmitters in the brain.
Prior research has also shown that the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus had a marked effect on GABA (an inhibitory neurotransmitter that is significantly involved in regulating many physiological and psychological processes) levels in certain brain regions and lowered the stress - induced hormone corticosterone, resulting in reduced anxiety - and depression - related behavior.5
Most treatments for depression and anxiety are based on the low - serotonin theory of depression, which roughly states that depression is due to decreased production of certain neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, in the brain.
However, Dr. Abram Hoffer did very early work that demonstrated that certain vitamins, such as niacin, could play an extremely important role in controlling brain neurotransmitters.
In the brain, it is used to synthesize certain neurotransmitters.
It has been shown to increase information processing and the production of certain neurotransmitters in the brain.
For half of the last century, various experiments (including our own 7 + years of dream food research) have proven that eating certain foods raises the bioavailability of precursor nutrients accessing corresponding neurons; and in fact, enhances the natural release of neurotransmitters in neurons that are actively firing at the time of consumption due to neural networks linking the gut biome to the brain.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that activates pleasure centers in certain parts of the brain.
According to Dr. Helen Fisher, biological anthropologist and author of Anatomy of Love, 40 to 60 percent of your personality stems from your biology, naturally drawing you towards partners with a certain predominant neurotransmitter brain system: either the dopamine, serotonin, testosterone, and estrogen / oxytocin system.
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