Understanding the Role of Dopamine in Addiction: Animal and Human Studies

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Addiction refers to the term which is treatable, genetics, chronic medical disease which can
involve complex interactions among within individual genetics and brain circuits. This is the one
which can lead to create high impact in individual lifestyle. Here, dopamine is the
neurotransmitter which is responsible for the addiction within individual. This is the one which
act on brain and can lead to trains brain and help in avoiding the unpleasant experiences which
can seek to pleasurable one. Here, neurotransmitter role is to provide relief from any type of
mental health issue like stress or any unpleasant disorder like addiction which have negative
impact. In this, there is discussion about the understanding of dopamine role in addiction which
includes the understand of neurotransmitter. There is also discussion about the extent of variation
which includes the neurotransmitter and its receptor. It also includes the understand of research
method. There is also discussion about the animal study and human participants study (Spitta and
et. al., 2022).
MAIN BODY
Dopamine can be referring as the neurotransmitter which is helpful in providing good
feeling to individual. This is the one which have high extent towards the delivery of proper
endorphins, serotonin along with endorphins (Yusoff and et. al., 2022). There is unique primary
function which are effective and can allow to get better and effective response towards it. This
can also include the pleasant-reward system within brain. Here, dopamine plays an important
role in the feeling of motivation which are required to perform any work to achieve the goal.
Their also provide the sense of satisfaction which can help through accomplishing the tasks.
There are some of symptoms which includes anxiety, high libido, difficult sleeping, mania,
increased energy, stress improved ability to focus and learning. There are some of the
characteristics of dopamine which includes the curious, spontaneous, restless, impulsive,
energetic, mentally flexible and others.
Dopamine is generally a type of neurotransmitter (Lv and et. al., 2022). The human body
can make it as well as the nervous system can uses it to send the messages among the nerve cells.
This is the reason; it is sometimes known as a chemical messenger as well. The Dopamine can
play a key role in how a person can feel pleasure. It is generally considered as a big part of the
unique human capability in order to think and plan. It generally helps a person to strive,