A scientific study said it found possible links between the tendencies of some people to raise and dangerous adventure and sports, and the specific chemical in the brain, the “dopamine” which is one of the neurotransmitters that carry chemical messages between brain cells, and is also responsible for the sense of complacency.
The study assumes that brains adventurers and risk-loving the challenge of containing a smaller number of cells, inhibiting the reception of dopamine, the levels remain high in this article stimulates the brain and the risk of hazardous activities, leading to reckless driving or excessive consumption of alcohol.
The study was prepared by scientists from the University of Nashville and the Albert Einstein Institute of Medicine in New York, is scheduled to be published in the journal “Neurology”.
It is well known that dopamine is responsible for the sense of self and satisfaction, it is a source of euphoria after a fatty meal or a soccer game interesting, and some studies have linked to the view that addiction to drugs, which increase the pump is abnormal in the brain, which generates feelings of pleasure.
And work on a major study by Dr. David Zald, who collected the 34 men and women, put them a series of questions to determine the orientation of the risk, after the identification of risks, including the challenge of love, has to examine the brains of all participants with a special study is able to identify the number of cells receiving dopamine.
