{"id":141840,"date":"2022-07-08T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/what-does-gaba-do-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2022-07-08T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T10:22:30","slug":"what-does-gaba-do-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/what-does-gaba-do-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"What Does GABA Do in the Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGGXBbst5Lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that sex is a basic instinct and a near-universal experience, we know remarkably little about it. And so, this week, we\u2019re teaming up with our friends at Futurism, oracles of all things science, technology and medicine, to look at the past, present and future of pleasure from a completely scientific perspective.<\/p>\n<p>For a while now, the neurotransmitter dopamine has been seen as the conductor of good feelings. It\u2019s the subject of love songs, the seductress of biohackers and the ostensible \u201cpleasure chemical.\u201d But as research continues to uncover more about our brain\u2019s reward system, dopamine is beginning to look less like the maestro and more like a member of the band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that sex is a basic instinct and a near-universal experience, we know remarkably little about it. And so, this week, we\u2019re teaming up with our friends at Futurism, oracles of all things science, technology and medicine, to look at the past, present and future of pleasure from a completely scientific perspective. For [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141840","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}