The Neuropsychopharmacology of Stimulants: Dopamine and ADHD

Then the enzyme Dopamine Ã-Hydroxylase inside the vesicle converted the dopamine to norepinephrine. Work by Carlsson and others in the 1950s showed that some regions of the brain, particularly the basal ganglia that includes the striatum and nucleus accumbens, were enriched in dopamine and had very little norepinephrine (Cooper et al., 2003). ................
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