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Dopamine and Addictions
Drugs reroute the dopamine circuit with a more intense stimulation than natural rewards as food or sex.
Different addictions are very similar because it hijacks the mechanism to keep us alive.
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What is the trigger for Dopamine?
Most dopamine neurons signal a reward prediction error; they are activated by more reward than predicted (positive prediction error), remain at baseline activity for fully expected rewards, and show depressed activity with less reward than predicted (negative prediction).
When everything i...
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Dopamine motto is “much more”
In the beginning, Dopamine was perceived as the "pleasure molecule".
Participants in early researches had pleasure when Dopamine was activated.
Reputation was consolidated through more research on drug addicts, and it was named the reward circuit.
Later, it was discovered that ...
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Dopamine and arts
People who love fine arts and those attracted by science have more in common because Dopamine controls both.
There is no significant difference between the poet and the physicist because both thrive in the abstract world, and Dopamine is about the future and imagination.
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Dopamine and Pleasure
It rewards our enjoyable experiences (eating tasty food or doing fun things), Motivates us to repeat these behaviors by creating a feeling of pleasure forming addictive patterns.
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Chemical Reaction: Music And Dopamine
A network of auditory cortex nerves (the corticofugal network) helps with the recognition and cataloguing of the different audio patterns.
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