The Dope Menurgic Reward System

The ability to predict what's coming next usually is something that we find rewarding in the brain. Dopemin increases in the brain in anticipation of receiving a reward, and it plays a role in motivating you to repeat a behaviour that caused you to get a reward in the past. But our reward systems can also become motivated by rewards that are at a sort of abstract remove, like money or perhaps things like enjoyable art and music,. Or even by substances that stimulate the reward pathways chemically, like opiates or cocaine.