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The Dopamine Expert: Doing This Once A Day Fixes Your Dopamine! What Alcohol Is Really Doing To Your Brain! Your Childhood Shapes Future Addictions!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Dopamine Dynamics: Pleasure, Pain, and Addiction

This chapter explores the vital role of dopamine in shaping our motivations, pleasures, and survival instincts, using experiments with rats to illustrate its impact on basic needs. It discusses the complexities of dopamine's functions, including its relationship with addiction and how modern behaviors challenge our evolutionary wiring. Through metaphors and explanations of brain mechanisms, the chapter highlights the balance between pleasure and pain, ultimately shedding light on the evolutionary underpinnings of our responses to substances like alcohol.

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