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151. Blood Volume Science, Emotions and Performance, and Double Doctor Celebration!

Some Work, All Play

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The Role of Dopamine in Performance

In a dopamine depleted state, participants exhibited increased exertion variability over reported their levels of exertion. Increased exertion availability was associated with less accurate effort assessment and dopamine had a protective effect on this. And finally, it essentially just corrupted all assessments of their effort and made them think they were going harder than they were. It's fascinating to think about the connection. I think we can safely say that dopamine might be connected to RP.

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