Dopaminergic

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Dopaminergic means "related to

Supplements and drugs

The following are examples of dopaminergic substances:

Precursors

• Dopamine
  L-tyrosine are used as dietary supplements. L-DOPA (Levodopa), another precursor, is used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
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• depression and anxiety
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• thiothixene, and trifluoperazine, the atypical antipsychotics such as amisulpride, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal), sulpiride, and ziprasidone, and antiemetics like domperidone, metoclopramide, and prochlorperazine, among others, which are used in the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as antipsychotics, and nausea and vomiting
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• street drugs
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• antihypertensives, and in the past as antipsychotics
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• Dopamine "activity enhancers" such as
  medical disorders. To date, only phenylethylamine and tryptamine have been identified as endogenous "activity enhancers".^[2]

• dimethyltryptamine (DMT) via inhibiting their metabolism
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• Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) mRNA upregulators such as bromantane and low dose aspirin.[3]^[4] Bromantane's upregulation of TH may persist for a time (up to at least one month) after its discontinuation based on data related to its efficacy in treating asthenic disorders in Russia.^[5]

Other enzyme inhibitors

• inhibitors such as entacapone and tolcapone, which are used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease
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• positive punishment from its unpleasant effects deters drug consumption.^[6]
• 3,4-dihydroxystyrene), which is currently only a research chemical with no suitable therapeutic indications, likely because such drugs would induce the potentially highly dangerous hyperphenylalaninemia or phenylketonuria
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• antihypertensive
  agent.
• antihypertensive
  agents.
• Others such as
  S-adenosyl-L-methionine
  (SAMe)

• Adrenergic
• Cholinergic
• Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript (CART)
• GABAergic
• Histaminergic
• Serotonergic

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