Sentences with word «neurotransmitter»

This wave causes the release of neurotransmitters in certain parts of the brain.

Researchers believe these medicines help regulate levels of neurotransmitters in the brain.

For decades it has been popular for its characteristic of decreasing mental and physical stress, improve your mood and increase cognitive performance as well as increase the levels of neurotransmitters dopamine and GABA.

Addiction is very complicated and involves numerous imbalances, including your feel - good neurotransmitter serotonin as well as hormones like testosterone.

Zinc also is required for neurotransmitter release in the brain and insulin packaging and secretion.

Magnesium, which acts as a precursor for neurotransmitters like serotonin, is well - known for its role in helping to regulate your emotions and enhance well - being.

In fact, some hormones actually function as neurotransmitters in the brain, directly affecting your thoughts and feelings.

If you want like a smooth, creaminess, you add just a tinge of this, and if you want to have a lot of neurotransmitters called acetylcholine, well then lecithin is a great choline donor.

Thiamine is essential in our body for the production of neurotransmitter acetylcholine used to send messages between nerves and muscles.

In 1993, Brunner discovered a predisposition to violence in a single Dutch family carrying a mutation in the gene which makes monoamine oxidase A (MAOA), another enzyme vital for regulating neurotransmitter levels in the brain.

Depression is associated with neurotransmitter imbalance in particular low serotonin levels in the brain.

, produce neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin, they help digest our food and unlock nutrients for us, they increase our metabolism and are a MAJOR contributor to a healthy immune system.

The greater incorporation of the omega - 3 fatty acids into phospholipid structures in the brain may lead to emotional balance and better brain neurotransmitter production.

The molecular mechanisms by which midbrain dopamine neurons acquire the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA for synaptic release are revealed.

They also produce neurotransmitters such as adrenaline (epinephrine), norepinephrine, and dopamine.

These microbes are essential for B6 absorbtion and activation, which is the critical cofactor in the conversion from the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate into GABA.

Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter which affects physical and psychological functions such as motor control, learning and memory.

After isolating the gene, Wu's team determined that when working properly, Wake helps shut down clock neurons of the brain that control arousal by making them more responsive to signals from the inhibitory neurotransmitter called GABA.

Although 5 - HT3 receptors play a role in afferent signaling in taste buds, the full neural taste response clearly involves other neurotransmitter receptors.

Between 90 % and 95 % of your serotonin, a key neurotransmitter which regulates mood, is produced in your intestines.

It acts by blocking receptors for 5 - hydroxytryptophan which seem to control the release of neurotransmitters involved in a variety of physiological and psychiatric processes, from nausea through to anxiety, addiction and memory.

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

Seratonin and other neurotransmitters responsible for feelings of well - being are profoundly influenced by any changes in your microbiome.

But as a neurologist, and not a hepatologist or a pulmonologist, I like it for its remarkable antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects as well as actions on important neurotransmitters such as glutamate and dopamine.

True anti-anxiety medications work to inhibit anxiety and fear (by affecting neurotransmitters like GABA, serotonin, or dopamine) with little to no sedative side effects.

Effects of drugs on neurotransmitter systems included as well as the uses of genetic modification (Human Genome Project) Content may also be applicable to GCSE content and other exam boards including AQA, WJEC, OCR.

They found that, unlike previously described K + currents, the M - current was regulated by neurotransmitters, thus mediating a new type of synaptic transmission.

Raw cacao is also good source of iron, calcium and magnesium, as well as the feel good neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, anandamide and phenylethylamine.

Immediately after a concussion, all the cells in the brain fire at once — a massive electrical discharge «like a miniseizure,» he says — indiscriminately releasing an excitatory neurotransmitter called glutamate, which in turn triggers brain cells to release potassium.

In contrast, interference of high CO2 with brain neurotransmitter functions is the primary cause of such impaired behaviour in experiments simulating future ocean acidification.

A 2012 study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine lists myriad physiological explanations for NDEs, from neurotransmitter imbalances to REM sleep intrusion.

Ecstasy tricks neurons into dumping large quantities of the mood - regulating neurotransmitter serotonin into the brain.

The ratio of glutamine to glutamate was higher: these are metabolized into GABA, a vital inhibitory neurotransmitter associated with relaxation.

The body produces serotonin from tryptophan — one of the chemical neurotransmitters responsible for wellbeing, good moods and healthy sleep.

SSRIs increase serotonin levels by preventing serotonin neurotransmitters from being reabsorbed.

Dronabinol may prevent or reduce sleep apnea episodes by stimulating certain neurotransmitter activity in the brain.

The ketones provided by the ketogenic diet provide an alternate source of brain food and promote a balanced neurotransmitter production resulting in better mental focus.

In a recent study, researchers at Center for BrainHealth, working in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden, have revealed a link between the dopamine neurotransmitter system in the brain and an individual's ability to recognize faces.

Finally we did a genetics test that told us that she was slow at breaking down certain estrogens and slow at making neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin.

Your brain communicates with your muscles by releasing a chemical neurotransmitter called acetylcholine, which signals them to contract.

However, previous work shows that feelings of pain and depression share the same descending pathways in the central nervous system.15 Neurochemical imbalances in key neurotransmitters such as serotonin may contribute to feelings of pain as well as depression.

And even if it did, increasing neurotransmitter activity is no guarantee of increased mental performance; rather, it, can be positively deleterious to throw chemical spanners into the exquisitely balanced biochemical system that is the human brain.

According to Dr. Gottman, «the major sympathetic neurotransmitter norepinephrine doesn't have an enzyme to degrade it so it has to be diffused through blood... this takes twenty minutes or more in the cardiovascular system.»

If our results are confirmed in future studies, it would be a unique demonstration of convergent evolution of intelligence, involving the same neurotransmitter receptors despite the widely different brain structures of birds and mammals.»

When excitatory neurons fire and release glutamate neurotransmitter into the synapse, the released glutamate can reach nearby astrocytes, so glutamate seemed a good candidate for the neuronal messenger that induces Nrf2 activity.

«We were able to develop this very novel method to go to a single neuron and manipulate how it computes» by using drugs to block neurotransmitters at the level of a single nerve cell in a frog brain, and then measuring what happens to that neuron in response to frog calls, Alluri says.

5 - HTP is the immediate biochemical precursor of serotonin, a calming neurotransmitter associated with feelings of satisfaction, relaxation and general wellbeing.

It can also improve your mood by increasing neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine.