dopamine

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   by dopamine 16y ago

   May I take this opportunity to remind that the only drug known to be relatively safe is caffeine.
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   by dopamine 16y ago

   Here are the research articles about the effects of oxytocin on human social behavior: Trust: http://www.socialbehavior.unizh.ch/static/home/heinrichs/dow... Empathy/generosity: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2040517/ Both
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   by dopamine 16y ago

   It is interesting that the author describes three ingredients for psychopathic behavior, and that he was missing the third: abuse during childhood. In rats, the quality of maternal care was shown to cause long-lasting effects in the brains
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   by dopamine 16y ago

   Karelis seems to describe a psychological condition known in animal and human psychology as "learned helplessness": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness The key insight is that poor people feel that they lack control over the