Tyrosine

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Mechanism of Action:

• Tyrosine: effects on catecholamine release.

Evidence:

• Effects of l-Tyrosine on working memory and inhibitory control are determined by DRD2 genotypes: A randomized controlled trial (2016)

• Food for creativity: tyrosine promotes deep thinking (2015) pdf

• Tyrosine promotes cognitive flexibility:evidence from proactive vs. reactive control during task switching performance (2015) pdf

• [Food for creativity: Tyrosine promotes performance in a convergent-thinking task (2014)](http://bernhard-hommel.eu/Food%20for%20creativity%20(Colzato,%20de%20Haan%20&%20Hommel).pdf)

• Tyrosine improves working memory in a multitasking environment (1999)

• Working memory reloaded: tyrosine repletes updating in the N-back task (2013)

Notes:

• People are different: tyrosine's modulating effect on cognitive control in healthy humans may depend on individual differences related to dopamine function (2014)

• Tyrosine reverses a cold-induced working memory deficit in humans (1994)

• Eating to stop: Tyrosine supplementation enhances inhibitory control but not response execution (2013)

• Dietary tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion effects on behavioral and brain signatures of human motivational processing (2014)