Most Replayed Moment: The Role of Dopamine in Addiction and Motivation - Anna Lembke
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Uh You wrote one of the most iconic well known books about Dopamine which propelled the subject matter of dopamine into the public consciousness. But I guess the most important question I should ask you is
Why does dopamine matter? Uh. Good question. Good good place to start. I mean dopamine matters because it's Fundamental to our survival.
Right. So it's the chemical that we make in our brain that tells us this is something we should approach, explore, investigate. So it's it's really almost the survival chemical. So what is dopamine, if you had to explain it to a ten year old. How would you go about explaining it? So dopamine is a chemical that we make in our brain.
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