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

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The Complexity of the Brain

The serotonin is produced by neurons in another part of the brain with this wonderful name called the dorsal-raffet nucleus. It turns out the serotonin neurons talk to the dopamine neurons and influence the dopamine neurons. We're actually doing studies showing that serotonin release in the acumen is actually modulate-stopamine release. So it gets crazy complicated. But you can still develop simplistic hypotheses, like as I was saying about MDMA, where abuse, addictive liability, and some of its reinforcing qualities are mediated via the dopamine system.

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