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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.
How dopamine works:
- Lnked to brain's reward system, released when we do something pleasurable.
- This creates a sense of pleasure and reinforces the behavior.
- As a result, we are more likely to do it again (Addictive Patterns).
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Learning and Memory
🧠 Plays key role in learning & memory.
🤔 How? By strengthening brain connections, aiding in information retention and recall.
❌ Improper dopamine functioning leads to cognitive disorders
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The Role of Dopamine in Our Brain's Communication
Dopamine: a special chemical in our brain that helps nerve cells communicate with each other.
- Produced in (substantia nigra, hypothalamus, and ventral tegmental area)
- Involved in (movement, motivation, reward, and pleasure)
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Motivation and Goal-directed Behavior
Dopamine drives goal achievement & staying motivated.💪
- Dopamine is involved in (motivation, decision-making, and goal-oriented behavior).
- It prioritizes tasks to help us achieve our goals.
- Dopamine levels increase when we (anticipate rewards - put necessary effort and ...
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Movement and Dopamine: A crucial link in Motor Control
Movement is controlled by signals between different parts of the brain. Dopamine helps with this, but if there's not enough dopamine, movement can be affected.
People with Parkinson's have tremors, rigidity, and slow movements because they ...
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Dopamine - A Powerful Brain Chemical
- Dopamine is important for (movement, reward, motivation, and mood regulation, learning, and addiction).
- Studying dopamine can help us understand . - This may lead to ).
- By understanding its role, we can gain insights into neurological and psychiatric disorders and more effec...
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Addiction and Dopamine
🧠 By repeated intake, messes brain & craves dose-drugs all the time.
🚫 Addiction is harmful and cause problems in your life.
👀 Watch out for these signs:
- 🚬 Keep hooked to drugs even when they cause problems
- 💔 Ignore important things to keep using drugs
- ...
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Mood and Emotion
- Plays crucial role in mood and emotional regulation
- Low levels (depression), High levels (mania and psychosis).
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Dopamine Functions
Dopamine is an important chemical messenger that plays several important roles in the brain and body:
- It influences moods and feelings of reward and motivation: When released in large amounts, it creates feelings of pleasure and reward, which motivates you to repeat a specific ...
Keep Your Dopamine Balanced
The Dopamine hormone is the satisfaction hormone released when we gain pleasure from something.
For instance, Dopamine is secreted when we get likes and comments on our Instagram or Facebook posts. It's also released from smoking, eating tasty food, playing video games and other stimulating...
How To Build Good Habits?
Habits are a dopamine-driven feedback loop. Every behavior that is highly habit-forming from most basic habitual behaviors like eating food, drinking water, having sex to taking drugs, playing video games, browsing social media.
- The habit formation is depend on the frequency of the ac...
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