Dopamine
☆ WatchMotivation, reward, movement, learning, attention
Too little may be associated with
Parkinson's disease, depression, ADHD
Too much may be associated with
Psychosis, schizophrenia symptoms, addiction
Informational only — not medical advice.
Stimuli that influence it
- Achieving a goal (behavior)
- Acts of kindness (behavior)
- Adventure sports (behavior)
- Aerobic exercise (behavior)
- Alcohol (substance)
- Amphetamine (substance)
- Breastfeeding (behavior)
- Cannabis (THC) (substance)
- Chocolate (dark) (substance)
- Cocaine (substance)
- Coffee (caffeine) (substance)
- Cold exposure (behavior)
- Cold shower (behavior)
- Competition (behavior)
- Creatine (substance)
- Creative art (behavior)
- Curcumin (substance)
- Cycling (behavior)
- Dancing (behavior)
- Fasting (short-term) (behavior)
- Fish oil (substance)
- Flow state (behavior)
- Folate (substance)
- Ginkgo biloba (substance)
- Gratitude journaling (behavior)
- Green tea (L-theanine) (substance)
- Helping others (behavior)
- High-intensity interval training (HIIT) (behavior)
- Hugging (behavior)
- Intermittent fasting (behavior)
- Kissing (behavior)
- L-theanine (substance)
- Laughing (behavior)
- Laughter with friends (behavior)
- Learning something new (behavior)
- Listening to favorite music (behavior)
- LSD (substance)
- Massage (behavior)
- MDMA (substance)
- Meditation (behavior)
- Methylphenidate (substance)
- Morning bright light (behavior)
- Mucuna pruriens (substance)
- Nature exposure (behavior)
- Nicotine (substance)
- Novel experiences (behavior)
- Omega-3 fatty acids (substance)
- Opioids (substance)
- Orgasm (behavior)
- Painting (behavior)
- Petting a dog or cat (behavior)
- Phenylalanine (substance)
- Playing music (behavior)
- Positive anticipation (behavior)
- Prayer (behavior)
- Psilocybin (substance)
- Reading enjoyable books (behavior)
- Receiving praise (behavior)
- Resistance training (behavior)
- Rhodiola rosea (substance)
- Running (behavior)
- Saffron (substance)
- Sexual activity (behavior)
- Singing (behavior)
- Social bonding (behavior)
- Solving puzzles (behavior)
- Swimming (behavior)
- Tea (caffeine) (substance)
- Tyrosine (substance)
- Uridine (substance)
- Visualization (behavior)
- Vitamin B12 (substance)
- Vitamin B6 (substance)
- Vitamin D (substance)
- Volunteering (behavior)
- Walking outdoors (behavior)
- Winning a game (behavior)
- Writing (behavior)
- Yoga (behavior)
Materials
- A First-Rate Madness (book)
- Affective Neuroscience (book)
- Altered Traits (book)
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (book)
- Brain Food (book)
- Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (book)
- Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition (book)
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (book)
- Dopamine Nation (book)
- Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health (book)
- How Emotions Are Made (book)
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (book)
- Mapping the Mind (book)
- Mindsight (book)
- Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor (book)
- Neuroscience (textbook) (book)
- Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (book)
- Phantoms in the Brain (book)
- Projections: A Story of Human Emotions (book)
- Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology (book)
- The Compass of Pleasure (book)
- The Idiot Brain (book)
- The Molecule of More (book)
- The Tell-Tale Brain (book)
- Unwinding Anxiety (book)