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Dopamine's Role
- Dopamine, a neurotransmitter, is crucial for pleasure, reward, and motivation.
- The brain's reward pathway releases dopamine in response to pleasurable stimuli.
Pleasure-Pain Balance
- Pleasure and pain are processed in the same brain areas, acting like a balance.
- The brain strives for homeostasis, downregulating dopamine after pleasure, leading to a pain response.
Social Dopamine & Overload
- Dopamine release reinforces social connection and collective experiences.
- Modern society's overabundance of dopamine stimuli overwhelms our adaptive mechanisms.