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Posts about Neural chemistry

A nerve axon depending on a sodium gradient to fire
Neural chemistry

Why nerves misfire when you only drink water

Gut serotonin staying in the gut, walled off from the brain by the blood-brain barrier
Neural chemistry

Daylight, brain serotonin, and the gut's separate pool

A hand resting on a forearm, the scale of touch this piece means
Neural chemistry

Light affection and the oxytocin pulse

A runner in the last minutes, when the keep-going signal matters more than comfort
Neural chemistry

What dopamine does in the last minutes of hard effort