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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

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The Dopaminergic Circuits

The mesocortical pathway is involved in motivation and it has an emotional component too. It originates in a brain structure called the lateral ventral tegmental area. The tubero infra-ndibular pathway is associated with dopamine and your pituitary gland. If you have ovaries or to your testes, if you have testes and trigger the release of things like estrogen and testosterone, etc., dopamine is intimately involved in that circuitry.

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