Oxytocin is often nicknamed the "love hormone" and frequently makes headlines in the press. But behind this idyllic image, ...

Discover powerful ways to boost your happy hormones—dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins—for a happier, healthier ...

Exercise is one of the most effective ways to increase serotonin naturally because exercise increases the availability of tryptophan – a precursor to serotonin – in the brain and promotes the release ...

Exercise, be it walking, spinning or swimming, makes us happy because it gives us a sense of achievement. "Dopamine, our reward chemical kicks in very quickly when we exercise, which is a nice way of ...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs ... doi:10.3390/ph3092861 Speranza L, di Porzio U, Viggiano D, de Donato A, Volpicelli F. Dopamine: The neuromodulator of long-term synaptic plasticity, ...

The authors suggest that it is related to sleep stage and serotonin acting at one type of serotonin receptor in the dentate gyrus. The results are significant because they suggest new insight into how ...

Oxytocin, a hormone already known for its role in childbirth, milk release, and mother-infant bonding, may have a newfound purpose in mammalian reproduction. In times of maternal stress, the ...

This study utilizes an elegant approach to examine valence encoding of the mesolimbic dopamine system. The findings are valuable, demonstrating differential responses of dopamine to the same taste ...

A touch, a kiss, any form of arousal causes the release of a cocktail of the “happy” brain chemicals dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. “In anticipation of sex, the mesolimbic pathway is lit ...