{"id":111068,"date":"2020-08-09T13:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/highly-sensitive-dopamine-detector-uses-2-d-materials"},"modified":"2020-08-09T13:07:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T20:07:19","slug":"highly-sensitive-dopamine-detector-uses-2-d-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/highly-sensitive-dopamine-detector-uses-2-d-materials","title":{"rendered":"Highly sensitive dopamine detector uses 2-D materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/highly-sensitive-dopamine-detector-uses-2-d-materials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine, according to a group led by Penn State and including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and universities in China and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that can be used to diagnose disorders such as Parkinson\u2019s disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you can develop a very sensitive, yet simple-to-use and portable, detector that can identify a wide range of dopamine concentration, for instance in sweat, that could help in non-invasive monitoring of an individual\u2019s health,\u201d said Aida Ebrahimi, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Penn State, and a corresponding author on a paper published Aug. 7 in Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supersensitive dopamine detector can help in the early diagnosis of several disorders that result in too much or too little dopamine, according to a group led by Penn State and including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and universities in China and Japan. Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter that can be used to diagnose disorders such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}