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Understand Your Dreams - Prof. Mark Solms

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The Role of the Dopamine System in Dreaming

The part of the brain that is most active as we enter dreaming sleep. The dopamine system activated very intensely during dreams, but also there's an activation of these perceptual cortices. We have pharmacological evidence that chemical boosting of this pathway leads to increased dreaming. And measuring the release of dopamine at their terminals shows that dopamine is released maximally during dreaming sleep. So all of these five different lines of evidence led us to conclude that this is indeed the part of thebrain that generates dreams.

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