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With repeated exposure over time, we essentially enter a chronic dopamine deficit state, which is akin to clinical depression. – Anna Lembke	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, we can verifiably show that human connections stimulate dopamine release, which is how they are reinforcing, and anything that stimulates dopamine in the brain's reward pathway has the potential to be addictive. – Anna Lembke	Found on CNN 2 years ago
There are studies that show that dopamine is released when we see a transgressor being punished, i think it’s possible that we just are chasing that hit that we get when we see someone that we’ve perceived to be a wrongdoer, get their comeuppance. – Tiffany Watt Smith	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Norepinephrine, epinephrine, dopamine and cortisol can increase with stress from life events, work, relationships, finances and more. – Kosuke Inoue	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Fish are sensitive to adverse effects of many neurologically active drugs from alcohol to cocaine and can develop drug addiction related to the dopamine reward pathway in a similar manner as humans. – Pavel Horky	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's like a dopamine hit, it's instant validation for what you post. Someone is validating what you've written or worn. You instantly feel good about what you wore and how you look. – Shalome Pinto	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There are subtle differences in the way Adderall and Ritalin affect dopamine systems in the brain. – Lauren Moran	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There are reward systems in the brain. It is a dopamine kick. When you are winning in a game, you get a dopamine kick. If you are doing cocaine, you get the same kick. – Amit Sen	Found on CNN 5 years ago
At its core there is a loss of brain cells that make dopamine, and that’s why in Parkinson’s you see symptoms of movement like tremors, slowness, stiffness, and walking and balance problems. – Rachel Dolhun	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Our biology plays a big role, [ but ] we ca n’t blame it all on biology. You ca n’t say,' Testosterone made me do it,' but people who have higher testosterone might cheat more, people who are more captured by their dopamine reward system might cheat more. – Kenneth Rosenberg	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It becomes like an addiction to novelty without substance, when you get a match with someone, it literally gives you a boost of dopamine, and you think, There’s no cost to continuing to play. The dating apps know this, and they are exploiting the shit out of our reward pathways to make sure that we’re always coming back. – Steve Dean	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
To the extent that smoking or other drug use alters how this system functions normally can have impacts on behavior that increase the likelihood that one continues to use drugs or has difficulty in quitting drug use, dopamine regulation of motivation for instance, is likely involved in the tendency of drug users to be overly preoccupied with drug use. – Joseph McClernon	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Neurotransmitter chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine are involved in sexual response and orgasm, but they’re also influenced by medications that treat anxiety and depression. – Alyssa Dweck	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We're frightened, yet we're also excited at the same time. ... We release dopamine which provides us with a pleasurable feeling, the first second you start accelerating incredibly fast, it leaves you almost breathless. – Rhonda Cohen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When you're pregnant, your blood volume expands so you have anemia to some degree, one of the theories is that there's not enough iron in a specific part of the brain that produces dopamine and that can trigger restless legs. – Dianne Augelli	Found on CNN 8 years ago
From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense that women are wary of being touched by strangers, women have evolved mechanisms to be choosy about whom they mate with and to fear rape by a stranger. However, touch by friends is both relational -- women tend to befriend as a buffer against stress -- and pleasurable. Touch gives a nice boost of dopamine, the 'feel-good' hormone. – Wendy Walsh	Found on CNN 8 years ago
There is some evidence to suggest that thrill-seeking is like anything pleasurable -- gambling, eating, -- it releases dopamine. – Seth Norrholm	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Simply petting a dog is like a spa treatment, after just a minute or two, you have this massive release of positive neurochemicals like dopamine and serotonin. – Marty Becker	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Excess dopamine is the best biological explanation we have for psychotic illnesses, it's possible that nicotine exposure, by increasing the release of dopamine, causes psychosis to develop. – Robin Murray	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The movement likely increases noradrenergic and/or dopamine functioning in the brain, which then enhances attention to the target stimuli. – Julie Schweitzer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Movement boosts arousal, which then increases attention. It likely occurs for tasks and situations that are either too boring or challenging, the movement likely increases noradrenergic and/or dopamine functioning in the brain, which then enhances attention to the target stimuli. – Julie Schweitzer	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Green leafy vegetables like spinach contain folate, which produces dopamine, a pleasure-inducing brain chemical, helping you keep calm. – Heather Mangieri	Found on CNN 9 years ago
More of it remains active flooding the brain with excess dopamine, resulting in intense pleasure and its related anticipation that users come to crave resulting in compulsive use and a stronger addiction, designing the molecule of a drug that blocks the exit door for dopamine in the brain makes it a more addictive substance. – Jim Hall	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Dopamine, in and of itself, is our natural anti-depressant, any time we can find a nonmedicinal way to stimulate that reward center ... the better off we're going to be. – Catherine Carey	Found on CNN 9 years ago

With repeated exposure over time, we essentially enter a chronic dopamine deficit state, which is akin to clinical depression.

– Anna Lembke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, we can verifiably show that human connections stimulate dopamine release, which is how they are reinforcing, and anything that stimulates dopamine in the brain's reward pathway has the potential to be addictive.

– Anna Lembke

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There are studies that show that dopamine is released when we see a transgressor being punished, i think it’s possible that we just are chasing that hit that we get when we see someone that we’ve perceived to be a wrongdoer, get their comeuppance.

– Tiffany Watt Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Norepinephrine, epinephrine, dopamine and cortisol can increase with stress from life events, work, relationships, finances and more.

– Kosuke Inoue

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fish are sensitive to adverse effects of many neurologically active drugs from alcohol to cocaine and can develop drug addiction related to the dopamine reward pathway in a similar manner as humans.

– Pavel Horky

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's like a dopamine hit, it's instant validation for what you post. Someone is validating what you've written or worn. You instantly feel good about what you wore and how you look.

– Shalome Pinto

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There are subtle differences in the way Adderall and Ritalin affect dopamine systems in the brain.

– Lauren Moran

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are reward systems in the brain. It is a dopamine kick. When you are winning in a game, you get a dopamine kick. If you are doing cocaine, you get the same kick.

– Amit Sen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

At its core there is a loss of brain cells that make dopamine, and that’s why in Parkinson’s you see symptoms of movement like tremors, slowness, stiffness, and walking and balance problems.

– Rachel Dolhun

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Our biology plays a big role, [ but ] we ca n’t blame it all on biology. You ca n’t say,' Testosterone made me do it,' but people who have higher testosterone might cheat more, people who are more captured by their dopamine reward system might cheat more.

– Kenneth Rosenberg

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It becomes like an addiction to novelty without substance, when you get a match with someone, it literally gives you a boost of dopamine, and you think, There’s no cost to continuing to play. The dating apps know this, and they are exploiting the shit out of our reward pathways to make sure that we’re always coming back.

– Steve Dean

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

To the extent that smoking or other drug use alters how this system functions normally can have impacts on behavior that increase the likelihood that one continues to use drugs or has difficulty in quitting drug use, dopamine regulation of motivation for instance, is likely involved in the tendency of drug users to be overly preoccupied with drug use.

– Joseph McClernon

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Neurotransmitter chemicals like serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine are involved in sexual response and orgasm, but they’re also influenced by medications that treat anxiety and depression.

– Alyssa Dweck

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We're frightened, yet we're also excited at the same time. ... We release dopamine which provides us with a pleasurable feeling, the first second you start accelerating incredibly fast, it leaves you almost breathless.

– Rhonda Cohen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When you're pregnant, your blood volume expands so you have anemia to some degree, one of the theories is that there's not enough iron in a specific part of the brain that produces dopamine and that can trigger restless legs.

– Dianne Augelli

Found on CNN
8 years ago

From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes sense that women are wary of being touched by strangers, women have evolved mechanisms to be choosy about whom they mate with and to fear rape by a stranger. However, touch by friends is both relational -- women tend to befriend as a buffer against stress -- and pleasurable. Touch gives a nice boost of dopamine, the 'feel-good' hormone.

– Wendy Walsh

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is some evidence to suggest that thrill-seeking is like anything pleasurable -- gambling, eating, -- it releases dopamine.

– Seth Norrholm

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Simply petting a dog is like a spa treatment, after just a minute or two, you have this massive release of positive neurochemicals like dopamine and serotonin.

– Marty Becker

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Excess dopamine is the best biological explanation we have for psychotic illnesses, it's possible that nicotine exposure, by increasing the release of dopamine, causes psychosis to develop.

– Robin Murray

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The movement likely increases noradrenergic and/or dopamine functioning in the brain, which then enhances attention to the target stimuli.

– Julie Schweitzer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Movement boosts arousal, which then increases attention. It likely occurs for tasks and situations that are either too boring or challenging, the movement likely increases noradrenergic and/or dopamine functioning in the brain, which then enhances attention to the target stimuli.

– Julie Schweitzer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Green leafy vegetables like spinach contain folate, which produces dopamine, a pleasure-inducing brain chemical, helping you keep calm.

– Heather Mangieri

Found on CNN
9 years ago

More of it remains active flooding the brain with excess dopamine, resulting in intense pleasure and its related anticipation that users come to crave resulting in compulsive use and a stronger addiction, designing the molecule of a drug that blocks the exit door for dopamine in the brain makes it a more addictive substance.

– Jim Hall

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Dopamine, in and of itself, is our natural anti-depressant, any time we can find a nonmedicinal way to stimulate that reward center ... the better off we're going to be.

– Catherine Carey

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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