Amphetamine and other amphetamine-type stimulants principally act to release dopamine into the synaptic cleft.
It makes the brain release the chemicals serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine.
The fetal cells take several months to mature inside the adult brain and begin releasing dopamine, Dr. Lindvall said.
Parkinson's is caused by the death of neurons that release dopamine, which is essential for motor control.
They release dopamine into the extracellular medium, and are specifically active during daylight hours, becoming silent at night.
Phenethylamine, similar to amphetamine in its action, releases norepinephrine and dopamine.
Daily bingeing on sugar repeatedly releases dopamine in the accumbens shell.
The latter was thus demonstrated to be an autoreceptor on cells that release dopamine.
Once the knockouts' brain cells release dopamine, they cannot pump it back in.
Nerve stimulation leads neurons to release dopamine onto the receptors for the chemical on other brain cells.