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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

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What Is Dopamine?

Many people are familiar with dopamine from the concept of quote unquote dopamine hits, which is popular language describing the feeling of pleasure that we get from pretty much anything. Dopamine is really about motivation and desire and movement. There are four major circuits in the brain that use dopamine. In fact, your eye even contains neurons that release dopamine that control the sensitivity of your eye at different times of day,.

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