Ginny Smith, "Overloaded: How Every Aspect of Your Life is Influenced by Your Brain Chemicals" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dopermin and Its Effects on Addiction
Dopemen is incredibly important for all sorts of different things. So i've got a chapter on love, which we've just been talking about,. A chapter on decision making, one on sleep, one on hunger. And by the end of it there's sort of, maybe ten chemicals in most of the chapters. And dopermin is in quite a lot of them. Not all, quite all of them, but almost all of them., he says. Dopermin has less to do with reward and more to do with drive or motivation. Motivation is probably the most important when we come to dopermin.
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