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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain’s Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices

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The Role of Serotonin in Social Interactions

It's clear that serotonin is playing some role in social interactions, at least in mice and almost certainly in humans as well. The biggest clue which I think you would agree with Andrew is this drug MDMA. How does a drug that has molecular targets in the dopamine neuromodulatory system have such a powerful effect? It doesn't make you want to go eat more donuts. There's something really important from that phenomenological observation in the human experiences that we can learn from.

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