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Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...dopamine function to make these positively rewarding stimuli ‘attention grabbing’ (you know the attention grabbing potential of a piece of chocolate cake or a nice looking person). Now these systems seem to be a little more responsive in some people than others. So some people (high E scorers) are strongly diverted towards intrinsically rewarding things, and others...
Gŵyl Seicoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gŵyl Seicoleg

...dopamin sydd yn yr ymennydd i leihau symptomau symud. Er eu bod yn effeithiol i lawer o bobl â PD, mae defnydd hirdymor yn gysylltiedig â sgil-effeithiau sylweddol. Yn absenoldeb gwellhad ar gyfer PD, her fawr yw dod o hyd i ymyriadau nad ydynt yn dibynnu ar driniaeth sy'n seiliedig ar gyffuriau, er mwyn helpu i gynnal perfformiad symud. Mae cyfres o astudiaethau peilot...
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...dopamine, which is more important and linked to mood states and reduction in depression. So several ways, several bio-physical ways in which exercise might improve mental health. Physical activity and mental health: why does it work? How do your explanations compare with those outlined in the extracts you have read or listened to? You may wish to use the Comments section...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...dopamine. Recall from earlier in this course that neurotransmitters are chemicals that neurons use to communicate with one another. Once neurotransmitter is released into a gap between neurons it must effectively bind to (join on to) an adjacent neuron in order to pass on its message. The point where it binds is known as a ‘receptor’. Every neuron therefore has a...
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...dopamine. Although dopamine’s normal role is in the body’s reward system, it is implicated in addiction. Ethanol increases the activity of neurons that release dopamine as their neurotransmitter – turning up communication by the brain’s reward system. You will learn more about this in Week 7. Overall, ethanol affects many different brain areas. The three which are...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...dopamine (essential for the processing of reward, in planning and for motivation), serotonin (strongly associated with mood and implicated in depression) and histamine (an important alerting signal). “In most other neural networks, there are parallel and multiple layers of security,” says de Lecea, so if something isn’t working properly, there are systems that can...
Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl

...dopamine, sy’n bwysicach ac yn gysylltiedig â hwyliau a lleihau iselder. Felly, mae ymarfer corff yn gallu gwella iechyd meddwl mewn sawl ffordd, sawl ffordd fioffisegol. Gweithgarwch corfforol ac iechyd meddwl: pam mae’n gweithio? Sut mae eich esboniadau’n cymharu â’r rhai a amlinellwyd yn y darnau rydych wedi’u darllen neu wedi gwrando arnyn nhw? Efallai yr...
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...dopamine within the brain. The hypothesis is supported by the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs which have been shown to elevate the levels of these neurotransmitters in the brain, and are known to be effective in alleviating the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, in particular, which increase serotonin levels...