Eating certain foods, like those high in protein, and healthy practices like exercising and sleeping the recommended amount can help increase your body’s dopamine levels without medication.

Dopamine is an inotropic agent that has vasodilatory effects at low doses. It is a common belief that low-dose dopamine may be helpful in the prevention and treatment of acute renal failure and is ...

Known as “dopamine foods,” they work to boost production of the feel-good chemical in your body. The way dopamine foods work in your body is a little complicated, and nutritionists stress that ...

A groundbreaking discovery by scientists at Japan’s RIKEN Center for Brain Science has revealed an unexpected link between dopamine and Alzheimer’s disease. This revelation could mark a major ...

The fad of temporarily fasting from pleasurable activities likely won’t “reset” dopamine levels and doesn’t accurately reflect this molecule’s nuanced functions. Hannah joined The Scientist as an ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. With the demonization of dopamine in recent years, some productivity “experts” have begun to recommend “dopamine detoxing.” While there are many ...

Then, there was this more alliterative pledge that sounds something like a fringe medical procedure: dopamine detox. Here is how it works: you temporarily deprive yourself of one or more sources ...

We use different in vitro and in vivo methods such as human motor neurons and dopamine neurons from ALS and Parkinson patient-derived iPS cells, as well as different transgenic and toxin-based animals ...