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How Dopamine Drives Love, Creativity & Addiction w/Daniel Z. Lieberman, MD EP 1255
The School of Greatness
Dope Means in Addictions?
There are dopemen circuits in your brain, and there's different ones. The one we think about with theddictions is technically called the mesolimbic circuit. We call it the desire circuit. Now, when drugs stark imin these chemical blasts of dopome into the limbic system, it starts to feel rational to do drugs instead of other things. And so you see some poor guy out on the street and he's lost his job, his house, his family, his health for his drug. But from the inside, it appears perfectly rational. He's choosing the thing that gives him the biggest dopomin. In the absence of drugs, that's a strategy that usually works
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