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neurochemical

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1. neurochemical - Noun

2. neurochemical - Adjective

Meaning

any organic substance that occurs in neural activity

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Life invented it first, Zoe thought, like so many other things. Like eyes: Turning photon impacts into neurochemical events with such subtlety that a frog can target a fly and a man can admire a rose. Robert Charles Wilson

Dream sleep provides a fascinating neurochemical soothing balm. It is during dream sleep and only during dream sleep when our brain shuts off a stress-related neurochemical called noradrenalin. Matthew Walker

What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification. Nayef Al-Rodhan

All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. Jeffrey Kluger

Decay theory Decay theory states that when something new is learned, a neurochemical, physical "memory trace" is formed in the brain and over time this trace tends to disintegrate, unless it is occasionally used. Source: Internet

Domoic acid is a neurotoxin that inhibits neurochemical processes, causing short-term memory loss, brain damage, and, in severe cases, death in humans. Source: Internet

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