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

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How to Increase Empathy and Compassion in the World

One thing that we know inhibits empathy and compassion is one's own challenges and struggles. If I'm very hungry, I mean, we're all taught to put our own oxygen mask on first in some way too so that we don't all die, so to speak. So if there was a way to introduce the probe of the interplay of circuaries that involve how convenient or inconvenient it is, like if we're well fed, it's pretty easy to go out and gather and distribute for others. But if we're hungry, we tend to focus on our own hunger. Most people are probably going to prioritize their own stress and priorities,. And the situation often calls for us to set

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