Dopamine and Addictions

• For humans, rats, and all animals , the desire and motivation to pursue sex arise largely from a neurochemical called dopamine.
• Dopamine amps up the centerpiece of the primitive part of the brain—the reward system. It’s where we experience cravings and pleasu...

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.

How dopamine works:

• Lnked to brain's reward system, released when we do something pl...

A network of auditory cortex nerves (the corticofugal network) helps with the recognition and cataloguing of the different audio patterns.

If a pattern matches with a familiar one already in the brain, it releases dopamine, which is the main reason why (your favourite) music is so emotiona...