Reward system
The brain's reward system is a group of brain regions responsible for reward-related cognition, or in other words, pleasure, motivation, and desire, in addition to associative learning. These regions of the brain are activated whenever there is a reward stimulus, which means there is a release of dopamine.
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We often cover its graphics, the story, or the gameplay. A selling adjective often used by those who enjoy games is that it's addictive, but have you ever wondered what are the mechanisms that make our brains enjoy games so much?
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- Dopamine is a neuromodulator – influences the communication of many neurons at once.
- There are 2 main neutral circuits used by dopamine to exert effects: (1) mesocortical limbic pathway – responsible for reward, motivation, craving; (2) nigrostriatal pathway
Dopamine
Dopamine plays many roles in the brain. It is related to movement, motivation, and reinforcement of behavior.
Dopamine appears to exert significant effects in two regions of the brain's cortex, the motor cortex, and the insular cortex. The insular cortex is critical for many cogn...
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