Brain dopamine and obesity : The Lancet - 0 views
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Nathan Goodyear on 27 Feb 12Dopamine found to be inversely associated with BMI. The higher the BMI, the lower the dopamine levels. This low dopamine would result in a proposed "pathological eating". As dopamine is the "pleasure" neurotransmitter, it would be easy to see how low dopamine would result in overeating.