2 Minute Neuroscience Dopamine

Dopamine

L-DOPA is an amino acid involved in the synthesis of the neurotransmitter

Schizophrenia is a potentially severe psychiatric condition that involves a variety of symptoms. In this video, I discuss the ...

In my

Norepinephrine, also known as noradrenaline, is a neurotransmitter and hormone that plays critical roles in the function of the ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is a condition characterized by difficulties with attention and/or hyperactivity and ...

Caffeine is the most widely-used mind-altering substance in the world. Although it's not completely clear how caffeine causes the ...

In this video, I discuss Parkinson's disease---the second most common neurodegenerative disease behind Alzheimer's disease.

Antipsychotics are a class of drugs primarily used to manage the symptoms of psychosis; they are most commonly used to treat ...

In this video, I discuss the limbic system's role in emotion and I briefly describe some of the structures that are often included in the ...

Serotonin

In this video I discuss the substantia nigra. I describe the

Nicotine is the main psychoactive component of tobacco, and thus one of the most widely used and abused drugs in the world.

The ventral tegmental area, or VTA, is one of the

How alcohol acts on the central nervous system to produce intoxication is still poorly understood. In this video, I attempt to ...

SSRIs are the most widely-used treatment for depression, and have been since their introduction to the market in the late 1980s.

Psilocybin is a substance found in a number of mushroom species that can be ingested to cause psychoactive effects. Although ...

In this video I discuss the neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA. GABA is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in ...

In this video, I discuss the neurotransmitter

Melatonin is a derivative of