Among the newer antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia are a type called dopamine partial agonists. They get this name from the way they work in your brain. You might also hear them called dopamine ...

If you have schizophrenia, two specific neurotransmitters, serotonin and dopamine, may be out of balance. Your doctor may prescribe serotonin-dopamine activity modulators, or SDAMs. These drugs ...

Researchers at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) believe they have solved a riddle that has challenged scientists for more than 70 years: how the brain chemical dopamine relates to ...

Medically reviewed by Kelly Wood, MD Behaviors, habits, and even foods may help balance your body's response to dopamine, a neurotransmitter (chemical messenger that promotes communication between ...

After decades of antipsychotic drugs, a new FDA-approved treatment for schizophrenia targets a different brain system—with ...

The current study "set out to understand how dopamine acts in schizophrenia" using "analysis of the genetic and transcriptional landscape" of the post-mortem caudate nucleus from 443 donors (245 ...

Researchers believe they have solved a riddle that has challenged scientists for more than 70 years – how the brain chemical dopamine relates to schizophrenia.

While this dopamine-rich region had previously been theoretically linked with schizophrenia and is thought to be the target of many schizophrenia drugs, it hadn’t yet been examined in depth.

People with cannabis use disorder show signs of altered dopamine activity in the brain that mirror patterns seen in psychosis, according to a new brain imaging study published in JAMA Psychiatry.