UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore) - UConn Today
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UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore) - UConn Today
“Often, depressed people say they don’t want to go out with their friends,” says Salamone. But it’s not that they don’t experience pleasure, he says – if their friends were around, many depressed people could have fun.
“Low levels of dopamine make people and other animals less likely to work for things, so it has more to do with motivation and cost/... See more
“Low levels of dopamine make people and other animals less likely to work for things, so it has more to do with motivation and cost/... See more
Christine Buckley • UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore) - UConn Today
dopamine controls your effort of doing stuff which, in turn, might make you happy and feel pleasure (but it doesn’t directly control how much pleasure you feel)