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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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Biomolecules, 2021 Physical exercise has wide-ranging benefits to cognitive functioning and mental state, effects very closely resembling enhancements to hippocampal functioning.
Timothy J Schoenfeld
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Romanian Journal of Pediatrics, 2009 Rett syndrome, a neurodegenerative disorder, occurs almost exclusively in female children and has an incidence of 1/15.000. Development proceeds normally until 1 year of age when regression of language and motor milestones and acquired microcephaly ...
Andrei Zamfirescu
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Innovation relaxation belts to reduce labor pain itensity and increase β-endoprhine levels
Medisains, 2020 Background: Labor pain feels tremendous, and only 2-4% of mothers low pain during labor. Heat therapy is a non-pharmacological method. The heat therapy is still conventional, and this study uses a relaxation belt with more stable, dry heat media, and ...
Candra Tyas Nur Fitria +3 more
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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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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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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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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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The dancing queen:explanatory mechanisms of the 'feel-good effect' in dance [PDF]
, 2017 Dance is a social, creative form of human activity impacting on wellbeing through emotional involvement in active or passive participation at all levels of mastery.
Calmeiro, Luis, Jola, Corinne
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Effects Of Amitryptilin Administration on Rat Sera and Brain Beta-endorphins
Biomolecules & Biomedicine, 2006 The aim of our study was to establish the influence of antidepressive drugs on serum and brain beta-endorphins in experimental animals. Experiment was performed on albino Wistar rats. Antidepressant amitryptiline was used, and for quantification of sera
Radivoj Jadrić +5 more
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