News tagged with dopamine transporter
Protein on 'speed' linked to ADHD
Jul 08, 2008 |
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A genetic change in the dopamine transporter – one of the brain's dopamine-handling proteins – makes it behave as if amphetamine is present and "run backward," Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators report this ...
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Cocaine's effects on brain metabolism may contribute to abuse
Feb 18, 2008 |
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Many studies on cocaine addiction - and attempts to block its addictiveness - have focused on dopamine transporters, proteins that reabsorb the brain's "reward" chemical once its signal is sent. Since cocaine blocks dopamine ...
Narcolepsy Drug Being Used to Improve Cognitive Performance Affects Brain Dopamine Activity
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Preliminary research in healthy men suggests that the narcolepsy drug modafinil, increasingly being used to enhance cognitive abilities, affects the activity of dopamine in the brain in a way that may create ...
Could hormones explain gender differences in neurological disease?
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Neurological diseases including Parkinson's, Tourette's, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer's, and schizophrenia are all associated with alterations in dopamine-driven function involving the dopamine ...
'Neurological work-arounds' offer hope to people with monoamine-related disorders
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Researchers have known for decades that the brain has a remarkable ability to "reprogram" itself to compensate for problems such as traumatic injury. Now, a research article published in the February 2009 issue of the journal ...
Research shows power of FRET-based approach for distinguishing among distinct states of proteins
Nov 30, 2009 |
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In the December 2009 issue of the Journal of General Physiology, Moss et al. report a comprehensive investigation employing Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study the {gamma}-amino acid (GABA) transporter GAT1, ...
Nature and nurture are both to blame for depression, study says
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jan 15, 2008 |
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Depression is one of the most common forms of psychopathology. According to diathesis–stress theories of depression, genetic liability interacts with negative life experiences to cause depression. Traditionally, most studies ...
Phasic firing of dopamine neurons is key to brain's prediction of rewards
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Researchers are one step closer to understanding the neurobiology that allows people to successfully learn motivated behaviors by associating environmental cues with rewarding outcomes, according to a study published yesterday ...
The genetics of fear: Study suggests specific genetic variations contribute to anxiety disorders
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Polymorphisms are variations in genes which can result in changes in the way a particular gene functions and thus may be associated with susceptibility to common diseases. In a new study in Psychological Science, a journa ...
Obesity predisposition traced to the brain's reward system
Jul 29, 2008 |
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The tendency toward obesity is directly related to the brain system that is involved in food reward and addictive behaviors, according to a new study. Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and colleagues ...
Genetically altered mice no longer like cocaine
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Jun 01, 2006 |
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Researchers found that they could eliminate the rewarding effect of cocaine on mice by genetically manipulating a key target of the drug in the animal's brain.
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