Posted by pseudoname on November 23, 2005, at 18:23:48
In reply to Re: coffee and dopamine » pseudoname, posted by lunesta on November 23, 2005, at 15:50:57
> I haven't seen literature that caffeeine increases or effects dopamine receptors in my readings/studies
The forcefulness of your declaration, "[Coffee] doesnt work via dopamine @ all," sounded pretty authoritative. I'm sure you'd agree that it would be too bad if a line of investigation, like spriggy's about her depression lifting and its possible connections with coffee and dopamine, were prematurely cut off.
> Can you provide any links that caffee/coffee effects dopamine positively?
Marshall Brain's caffeine pages are a place to start: http://www.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm
My specific reference to the prefrontal cortex was from this abstract: "Are we dependent upon coffee and caffeine? A review" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=99171902&dopt=Citation
> I study pharmacology
You mean formally, at school? Cool! Or like most of us Babblers, for non-credit understanding? (Also pretty cool, of course.)
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