TWiN 40: Dopamine organizes behavior's syllables
This Week in Neuroscience
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The Role of Dopamine in the Salience of a Cue
Dopamine is a chemical substance that sits between your intention and the movement that comes outwards after it. If you have too little dopamine in the brain, you get Parkinson's where you really want to move, but can't. Too much dopamine, you want to not move, but you can't. And I don't know why we are piping our entire being from our intention to our output through dopamine. That was my question, evolutionarily. Why would that happen? Right. Oh, it usually doesn't.
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