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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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Research in Endorphins and Schizophrenia* [PDF]
Schizophrenia Bulletin, 1979 It has been suggested that the newly discovered endogenous opiate peptides (called endorphins) might play a role in the symptoms of schizophrenia. The administration of narcotic antagonists provides both a test of the hypothesis and a potential treatment.
William E. Bunney +2 more
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Acupuncture and the Endorphins [PDF]
Ethos, 1982 Acupuncture originated in prehistoric China. The first needles were evidently sharp flints (Veith 1949:59). The first textbook on acupuncture was The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, which was written about the 3rd century B.C., but attributed to Huang Ti, a semimythical emperor said to have ruled China around 2600 B.C.
Bruce Pomeranz
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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, Chance Swanson
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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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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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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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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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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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