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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Are hormones like Dopamine and Oxytocin exclusively responsible for certain emotions/moods? Is it possible to still experience these emotions/moods with none of these hormones at all?
gpt
A single neurotransmitter (NT) is rarely responsible for something as complex as moods and emotions. Instead, you would be looking at combinations of NT as well as involvement of different regions of the brain or different subsets of neurons within a region depending on the emotion- many of those regions will be able to influence the release of those specific NTs. Without those NTs, it is extremely unlikely that you would experience those emotions or moods in the same way as before, if at all.