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What does dopamine mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) A neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention, learning, and the brain’s pleasure and reward system.
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However, drug therapies that target the dopamine system may be on the horizon.
The second major effect of caffeine is its increase of dopamine levels in the body.
High affinity dopamine reuptake inhibitors as potential cocaine antagonists: a strategy for drug development.
A study on the effects of acute dopamine reuptake inhibition on performance.
Thus this study shows the critical importance of the serotonin system as well as the dopamine system in mediating cocaine's pleasurable effects.
The addictive and euphorogenic effects of cocaine are thought to result primarily from inhibition of dopamine reuptake.

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