Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Dopemin
There's this whole sense of agencyt that's involved. So when you and i are lifting up glasses of water, or er deciding to look out the window, or whenever, have no doubt whatever that it's us. The idea is that people, at least with some, some subset of scetsophranics, have had a difficult time with this whole concept. And in parallel with this, there are very exciting developments in the dopemin story, mostly, i think, due to wolfrem schultz,. He showed that there are nurons in the middle of the brain, ventural tegmentum and cordate, which released dopamine.
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