neurochemical

David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has written a book, The End of Overeating, that accuses the food industry of manipulating the levels of sugar, salt, and fats in food in order to create a neurochemical addiction.

Beating Obesity 2010

For example, he cites research suggesting that people with high levels of the feel-good neurochemical dopamine "are more likely to find significance in coincidences and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none."

A Trick Of the Mind Ronald Bailey 2011

She points out that not only was the potent neurochemical released at the moment of peak emotional response - when you might feel the aforementioned chills, for example, or your hair standing on end - but the mere anticipation of that peak arousal was also enough to cause an increase in dopamine.

Listening to music can prompt the brain to send positive signals throughout the body 2011

David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has written a book, The End of Overeating, that accuses the food industry of manipulating the levels of sugar, salt, and fats in food in order to create a neurochemical addiction.

Beating Obesity 2010

She cites, as an example, how dopamine, the influential neurochemical that is significantly impacted by technology, reduces activity in the prefrontal cortex, the area most associated with so-called executive functioning including attention, self-control, abstract thinking, planning, decision making.

Dr. Jim Taylor: Is a Low-Resolution Life Worth Living? Dr. Jim Taylor 2011

Before the 1990s, there weren't effective prescription drugs, but more recently, many patients have found relief from triptans, a class of drugs that interfere with the neurochemical process of a migraine and stop the pain, Lipton says.

Migraine therapy advances with drugs, clue to causes 2011

If a neurochemical abnormality in "amnesiac" fruit flies affects their memories, then there's hope that the same neurochemical in humans could be targeted to affectively treat our own memory disorders.

Gee Henry: Book Review: Marlene Zuk's 'Sex on Six Legs' Gee Henry 2011

If a neurochemical abnormality in "amnesiac" fruit flies affects their memories, then there's hope that the same neurochemical in humans could be targeted to affectively treat our own memory disorders.

Gee Henry: Book Review: Marlene Zuk's 'Sex on Six Legs' Gee Henry 2011

David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has written a book, The End of Overeating, that accuses the food industry of manipulating the levels of sugar, salt, and fats in food in order to create a neurochemical addiction.

Beating Obesity 2010

David Kessler, a former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, has written a book, The End of Overeating, that accuses the food industry of manipulating the levels of sugar, salt, and fats in food in order to create a neurochemical addiction.

Beating Obesity 2010