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What is the chemical responsible for happiness?

Asked by gggritso (5459points) October 25th, 2009

This is a question to the biology specialists out there. I’m wondering what chemical in the brain is linked to happiness/feeling of elation. The words “serotonin” and “endorphin” are floating around in my head, but neither seems right. The Wikipedia articles are pretty intimidating and don’t contain the keyword “happ”. Is there one single chemical that makes us happy?

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