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Music and social bonding: ‘self-other’ merging and neurohormonal mechanisms [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 It has been suggested that a key function of music during its development and spread amongst human populations was its capacity to create and strengthen social bonds amongst interacting group members. However, the mechanisms by which this occurs have not
Bronwyn eTarr +2 more
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N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptors and Depression: Linking Psychopharmacology, Pathology and Physiology in a Unifying Hypothesis for the Epigenetic Code of Neural Plasticity [PDF]
PharmaceuticalsUncompetitive NMDAR (N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor) antagonists restore impaired neural plasticity, reverse depressive-like behavior in animal models, and relieve major depressive disorder (MDD) in humans.
Stefano Comai +7 more
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Challenges and new opportunities for detecting endogenous opioid peptides in reward [PDF]
Addiction Neuroscience, 2022 The endogenous opioid peptide system, comprised of enkephalins, endorphins, dynorphins, and nociceptin, is a highly complex neurobiological system. Opioid peptides are derived from four precursor molecules and undergo several processing events yielding ...
Sineadh M. Conway +2 more
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Endorphins, Exercise, and Addictions: A Review of Exercise Dependence [PDF]
Impulse: The Premier Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal, 2006 Endorphins are endogenous opioids released from the pituitary gland that are believed to mediate analgesia, induce euphoria, and play a role in the reward system in the brain. It has been suggested that endorphins are responsible for creating the relaxed
Andrea Leuenberger
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Clinical Cardiology, 1984 It is generally accepted that serious exercise training leads to marked menstrual irregularity and frequently complete amenorrhea in females, due to a decrease in the release of hypothalamic gonadotrophin releasing hormone (GmRH). The recent demonstration of a rise in plasma met-enkephalin during this process suggests an etiological role for endogenous
Victoria J. Harber, John R. Sutton
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Endorphins have been associated with analgesia and pleasurable activities. However, the so-called “happy chemicals” are far more complex than initially thought. Research shows that their impact on human behavior is modulatory, with the main
M. Conde Moreno, F. Ramalheira
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The opioid receptor: emergence through millennia of pharmaceutical sciences
Frontiers in Pain Research, 2023 Throughout history humanity has searched for an optimal approach to the use of opioids that maximizes analgesia while minimizing side effects. This review reflects upon the conceptualization of the opioid receptor and the critical role that the ...
Carolyn A. Fairbanks +4 more
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The origins and function of musical performance
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Music is widely recognised as a human universal, yet there is no agreed explanation for its function, or why and when it evolved. I summarise experimental evidence that the primary function of musicking lies in social bonding, both at the dyadic and ...
Robin I. M. Dunbar
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Emotional arousal when watching drama increases pain threshold and social bonding [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Fiction, whether in the form of storytelling or plays, has a particular attraction for us: we repeatedly return to it and are willing to invest money and time in doing so. Why this is so is an evolutionary enigma that has been surprisingly underexplored.
R. I. M. Dunbar +6 more
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Comparison of Trazodone, Diazepame and Dibenzepine Influences on Rat Brain Beta-Endorphins Content
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2007 The aim of our study was to establish the extent of influence of different psychotropic drugs to brain β-endorphins in experimental animals. The study was performed on albino Wistar rats (weight 250 g), treated with different psychoactive drugs.
Radivoj Jadrić +3 more
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