Dopamine is our go-juice. It motivates us to chase reward and to run from danger. Without it, we might notice the bar of chocolate but would be unable to muster the energy to pick it up. We might see the car running the red light but lack the will to move out of the way. […]
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Pre-covid, one in ten UK adults reported current symptoms of anxiety or depression. The number was similar in Australia and the US. By June 2020, the UK number had risen to one in five. By Christmas in the US 42% of all US adults were reporting the symptoms. There is no reason to believe Australia’s
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Stimulant drugs like opioids, cocaine, meth and alcohol are devastatingly effective pathways to addiction, but there are much more subtle everyday routes to the same destination, and they all start with overstimulation of dopamine. Dopamine is a neurochemical that motivates us to take action and focuses our attention. It makes us run towards pleasure and
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Last week Gold Coast Suns co-captain Jarrod Witts collapsed with a season ending ACL injury. This week Carlton defender Caleb Marchbank suffered the same fate. They are just the latest high-profile examples of the rapidly growing list of ligament injuries in the AFL and AFLW. Ironically, the science tells us the damage is being done
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Do you have a fussy eater? Are your kids refusing to eat their greens? Worry no more, you should just give them a chocolate milkshake instead. Well, that’s what the makers of PediaSure would have you believe. But is filling a kid with flour, sugar and seed oil really a better alternative to telling a
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SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 is the third major outbreak of a dangerous beta-coronavirus. We have known about beta-coronaviruses in the human population since the 1960s but have never been able to develop a vaccine. The most likely scenarios are that the virus fizzles out like SARS or it simply becomes part of the
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Exposing high school students to addictive gaming under the guise of sport is reprehensible and is no better than addicting them to booze. Parents must wake up to the risks and stop schools from allowing it. AUSTRALIAN high schools are increasingly signing up to eSports programs. They might as well be opening lunchtime pubs in
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