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

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The Evolution of Social Interactions

The social connection circuitry through the lens of autism is going to be very interesting for us to do. What sorts of evolutionary hypotheses can we come up with as to why the human brain is so tuned for these social interactions? Why it's rewarded by not just one dopamine, but also serotonin and oxygen. Three prominent neuromodulatory chemicals in the brain are devoted at one site in the brain and others that it's connected to,. But to making sure that we do this as often as possible without giving up the rest of our lives.

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