For decades, Parkinson’s disease has been framed as a simple story of dwindling dopamine, a slow erosion of the brain’s ...

Explore dopamine's role in movement and how it challenges long-standing theories about motor control and Parkinson's disease ...

A McGill-led study is challenging a popular theory about how dopamine drives movement, a discovery that could shift how ...

Study: Smartphone-based prediction of dopaminergic deficit in prodromal and manifest Parkinson’s disease. Image Credit: mozakim / Shutterstock.com Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative ...

A new study from McGill University challenges a decades-old belief about dopamine. Rather than driving movement like a ...

Neuroscience researcher Mia Soviero says this morning routine helps boost her mood and increase her dopamine levels.

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Christopher Bergland crossing the finish line of the Triple Ironman (7.2-mile swim, 336-mile bike, 78.6-mile run) in 38 hours and 46 minutes. Tonic levels of dopamine are required to achieve most ...

A quick surge of dopamine shifts mice into a dreamy stage of sleep. In the rodents’ brains, the chemical messenger triggers rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, researchers report in the March 4 Science.

A new study shows dopamine isn’t the brain’s movement “gas pedal” after all. Instead of setting speed or strength, it quietly ...