Articles Tagged ‘dopamine’

Neuroscience & Neurology | By September 06, 2008 | By RD, MD | 0 Comments

A Baby’s Smile - Mom’s Natural High

Neuroscience and Neurology Category Many people, at one time or another, have witnessed this ritual: a beaming new mother enters with baby pictures. A group of genuinely excited women gather around the new mother admiring the pictures as they are passed around. The new mother is oblivious to the fact that she has showed dozens of pictures at different angles of “Little Johnny” smiling. In her eyes, the baby is adorable and all she wants to do is hold and cuddle him. The mother, who cannot wait until she returns home to her baby, is in a celebratory mood and returns to her desk, which is now decorated with favorite pictures of her smiling bundle of joy. Read more →

Drugs and Pharmacology, Tenth Edition | August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

Welcome to the tenth edition of Drugs and Pharmacology. Today, we discuss a variety of topics from novel biological approaches to battling memory impairment to the bloody side effects of taking SSRIs and NSAIDs together. Remember, we review the latest blogs related to drugs — medicinal, recreational,... Read more →

Drugs and Pharmacology, Ninth Edition | July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment

Welcome to the ninth edition of Drugs and Pharmacology. Today, we discuss a variety of topics from how California is fighting the battle against prescription drug abuse to the link between Parkinson’s drugs and gambling behavior. Remember, we review the latest blogs related to drugs — medicinal,... Read more →

Drugs and Pharmacology, Eight Edition | June 07, 2008 | 3 Comments

Welcome to the eight edition of Drugs and Pharmacology. Today, we discuss a variety of topics from anti-depressants and natural sleeping aids and their efficiency to the rise in tooth decay in children and whether fluoride supplementation is the answer. If you were left out in this round, just leave... Read more →

Cell Transplants for Parkinson’s Disease | May 12, 2008 | 0 Comments

Parkinson’s disease is a disorder that affects the central nervous system and causes an impairment of speech and motor skills. Parkinson’s disease affects 1 in 100 people that are over 60 years of age and has a nearly equal incidence rate in women and men. It is second only to Alzheimer’s... Read more →

The Synapse, Volume 1, Issue 7 | September 17, 2006 | 4 Comments

We at the Brain Blogger are privileged to host the 7th edition of the Synapse, “a neuroscience carnival devoted to all areas of neuroscience including neurobiology, psychology, psychiatry, and neural systems — healthy brains to perverse minds — neurotransmitters to theories of mind.”... Read more →

The Parkinsonian Personality: A Habit of Highly Successful People? | March 03, 2006 | 2 Comments

Parkinson’s Disease. As soon as we hear this, we think “neurodegenerative”, “dopamine”, “Levodopa”, “tremor”, “basal ganglia”, and so on. However, it is odd for one to associate Parkinson’s to Personality. Some common personality... Read more →