dopamine - Inside Thoughts
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dopamine - Inside Thoughts
Dopamine, explained
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Dopamine isn't about pleasure, it's about expectations and motivation.
Dopamine is a molecule in the brain and body that is closely linked to our sense of motivation. It can also enhance our depth of focus and lower our threshold for taking action toward specific goals .
Tools to Manage Dopamine and Improve Motivation & Drive
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Dopamine is the pleasure and reward neurotransmitter. It is responsible for attention and focusing. It motivates you and stimulates you to engage in life. Its close cousins are the stimulating and energy-giving neurotransmitters epinephrine and norepinephrine. All three are built from the amino acid tyrosine, which in turn comes from the essential
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Second, dopamine tunes signal-to-noise ratios in the brain, which means the neurochemical increases signal, decreases noise, and, as a result, helps us detect more patterns. There’s a feedback loop here. We get dopamine when we first detect a link between two ideas (a pattern), and the dopamine that we get helps us detect even more links (pattern r
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.psychology pattern detection loop by dopamine
Dopamine plays a lot of roles in the brain. If you kill off the cells that produce dopamine, the animal is not motivated to go out and do things. It’ll still enjoy something — like the sucrose solution you squeeze directly into its mouth — because the pleasure systems are fine. But they won’t pursue it. If you perform an action and you get more dop... See more
Angela Chen • Please stop calling dopamine the ‘pleasure chemical’ - The Verge
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It evolved to keep our vital needs satiated and not for any pleasurable experience or indulgence. Dopamine is about the desire to do more to reduce pain. Your desire for something consists of the pleasure of the experience and the pain you have when you don’t Experience it.
Andrew Huberman • How to Increase Motivation & Drive | Huberman Lab Podcast #12
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Dopamine specializes in driving all the various manifestations of desire, from our sexual appetites to our quest for knowledge.
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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The VTA in the brain contains neurons that send axons, which send out dopamine. This builds the core pathway for reward. The break for the dopamine release is the prefrontal cortex. Dopamine is a two path process in balancing pleasure and pain. If you get excited in a anticipatory way, the pathway starts firing and creates a desire to move and act.... See more
Andrew Huberman • How to Increase Motivation & Drive | Huberman Lab Podcast #12
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