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There's also examples, though, of people developing artistic and poetic talent as a result of getting these dopamine boosting drugs. As scientific terms go, this name is fairly simple – but it’s also misleading. There’s much more to dopamine than stimulus and reward. Daniel Lieberman: Really dopamine is the essence of addiction. Any drug that's potentially addictive is going to cause the release of dopamine, the activity of dopamine in that desire circuit. And conversely, any substance which causes this dopamine activity is going to be addictive. There's a lot of debate, some time ago, about whether or not marijuana could be addictive. It can. And now that we're seeing these very high, potent strains available, we are finding people who are losing control of their marijuana use but opioids, cocaine, this causes a lot more dopamine release. And so, these are extremely addictive. There are certain behaviors that caused dopamine release that also can get out of control. I don't think there's if there's a consensus yet about whether we're going to call it addiction, but things like video games, consuming pornography, these are things that look very much like addiction. So, one day he met a girl, dated her for a couple weeks and then persuaded her to come to Las Vegas with him and get married. Because, he thought that he could take control of this situation. He'd get married to her and live happily ever after. And it did not work out. Mike Long: I'm going, I'm going to say this, and I think it's the difference between us is one of degrees. Writing this book was a lot of fun. We enjoyed it. We had fun disagreements. We had silly arguments. We have serious, serious discussions, and I'm going to say, for my part, writing the book was a lot more fun than having it in your hand. I mean, I'm proud of it, and I learned a lot. But that two-year course we went through, I wouldn't trade that for anything. And it was, and it was simply the experience of going through that. Yeah, that's good.
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Control dopamine takes the excitement and motivation provided by desire dopamine, evaluates options, selects tools, and plots a strategy to get what it wants. I've worked as an artist for forty years, and the question 'Why am I like this?' has been a puzzle, a mystery, a plea, and an occasional cry to the heavens. Lieberman and Long have created a road map for all those wrestling between insatiable longing and the here and now. Analogies represent a very dopaminergic way of thinking about the world. Here’s an example: light can sometimes act like individual bullets being fired from a gun, and at other times like ripples traveling across a pond. An analogy pulls out the abstract, unseen essence of a concept, and matches it with a similar essence of an apparently unrelated concept.When an expected reward fails to materialize, the dopamine firing rate drops to zero, and that feels terrible. It turns out that dopamine doesn’t really care about tasty food. In fact, it doesn’t really care about anything that is predictable. Instead, dopamine gets released when we encounter things that are new, unexpected, and exciting. Alternatively, someone with a highly active control circuit might be cold and calculating, ruthless and devoid of emotion.
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When it comes to love, the loss of passionate romance will always happen eventually, and then comes a choice. But what if the brain is unable to make this adjustment? What if the most familiar place feels like an alien environment? This problem is not confined to schizophrenia. Kaitlin Luna: But, you, you could do elaborate things that are you seeing this presentation, though, it really captures your attention. It can be boring and could be interesting, right?
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That happy error is what launches dopamine into action. It’s not the extra time or the extra money themselves. It’s the thrill of the unexpected good news. The neurotransmitter dopamine is the source of desire (via the desire circuit) and tenacity (via the control circuit); the passion that points the way and the willpower that gets us there. Kaitlin Luna: Okay, because I read an article that said you can eat more protein, exercise and sleep more. Is that even true?
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I’ve worked as an artist for forty years, and the question ‘Why am I like this?’ has been a puzzle, a mystery, a plea, and an occasional cry to the heavens. Lieberman and Long have created a road map for all those wrestling between insatiable longing and the here and now.” The right on the other side, they call themselves conservatives. They're much less interested in change. They’re much else interested in things that are new. They're more here and now. They want to preserve the things they valued that they've inherited from their forebearers. And so, they're much less likely to have active dopaminergic circuits. The answer is found in a single chemical in your brain: dopamine. Dopamine ensured the survival of early man. Thousands of years later, it is the source of our most basic behaviors and cultural ideas-and progress itself.
Kaitlin Luna: So, you think you'd be more difficult if you were sitting somewhere remotely conduct using a drone as opposed to being flying a plane or something? Dopamine is the chemical of desire that always asks for more—more stuff, more stimulation, and more surprises. In pursuit of these things, it is undeterred by emotion, fear, or morality. Dopamine is the source of our every urge, that little bit of biology that makes an ambitious business professional sacrifice everything in pursuit of success, or that drives a satisfied spouse to risk it all for the thrill of someone new. Simply put, it is why we seek and succeed; it is why we discover and prosper. Yet, at the same time, it’s why we gamble and squander.
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Daniel Lieberman: That’s right. We really do have enough. We don't need a new cell phone. We don't need a bigger TV. We should just experience what we have and enjoy it. And when you said that a moment ago, Dan, I think that's if you're listening to this, you wondering, well, what do you mean by creativity? This is one good way to begin to understand it. Creativity is associating things that have not been commonly associated before. There's another pathway, though, that goes up to the frontal lobes. We call that the control pathway as opposed to the desire pathway, which is more immediate gratification. This plans for longer term gain, and so, people with very strong control systems, are going to be more the type A workaholics. They can't relax. They work incredibly hard. They're the kind of people who can afford beach houses but can't enjoy them. The last thing they're going to be able to do is sit on the beach, soaking up the sun. Chapter 4: Creativity and Madness............................................................................... 152Introduction: Up Versus Down......................................................................................... 5 And yet, dopamine remains and correct me if I'm wrong, Dan, at the same levels. It's always been more or less here. Here we go, and dopamine has to have something to do. And that leads to these cultural effects. These cultural conflicts. These personal experiences that are — are sometimes frustrating. Sometimes, curious and strange. And that's where we went with the book is understanding how dopamine got us to this point, how it explains so much trouble we find ourselves in today and so many curious experiences we have. Kaitlin Luna: So, it's really been integral in what has helped us evolve from early humans to where we are today? So, from an evolutionary point of view, it's incredibly important. And that's why it's so powerful because it directs our behavior from the bottom up. It's designed to keep us alive and make us evolutionarily successful. You've got hundreds of girlfriends. And, like the cocaine addict who no longer gets pleasure from the drug but has to keep doing it, he was no longer getting pleasure from these encounters. But, he couldn't make that transition for one reason or another to the companionate phase.
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