Shabu, or crystal methamphetamine, manipulates the reward pathways of the brain, flooding it with dopamine.
The brain floods the body with melatonin a couple of hours before bedtime and continues releasing the hormone until about an hour after wake time.
Your team are out sweating in the field, pushing themselves to the limits of human endurance, while you are in a sedentary pose, hydrating with Thatchers Gold; yet at the moment of triumph, your veins surge with the same adrenaline, your brain floods with the same endorphin rush.
When a teen recognizes a face or receives a "like" on social media, his or her brain floods with dopamine, similar to the brain's reaction to some psychoactive drugs.
Works like "Head Strong" and "In My Head" represent not only mappings of Parker's brain, flooded with the concerns or preoccupations of a politically-minded artist, but also as his version of a self-portrait.
The thought of pepperoni was probably causing Camila's brain to flood with dopamine, but mine had already received a shot of it in the form of that funny-colored pill.
This is the state of anger that occurs when escalation rises to a level that the brain is flooded with stress hormones that propel you into a state of "fight, flight or freeze". Flooding is a physiological state that blocks our ability to think and act from our higher intentions.
But when the brain is flooded with cannabinoids through marijuana use, forgetfulness results, Dr. Wilson said.
With so many sights, sounds, smells, and other stimuli, the brain is flooded by the moment.
