dopamine in Podcasts
personA neurotransmitter involved in alertness and motivation, released upon vagus nerve activation.
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It's three molecules, dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, all which cause an increase in alertness, all which cause an increase in focus, a tightening of our visual field and our auditory field.
And today, Dr. Desposito explains the neural circuits controlling executive function and memory, how they interact, the key role of dopamine in executive function and something called working memory, and teaches us ways to optimize executive function and memory, that is, how to optimize cognitive function.
In fact, dopamine is the way that we assess value of our pursuits.
Dopamine is the common currency by which we assess our progress toward particular things of particular value.
And that is the neuromodulator dopamine.
Dopamine is a neuromodulator most often associated with movement, craving, motivation, and desire.
She discovered, for instance, that grief is best understood through the lens of human attachment and that dopamine, a molecule that we normally hear about in the context of motivation and pleasure, creates a sense of yearning that is central to the grieving process. She explains it to effectively move through grief. We have to work with both our feelings of protest and our feelings of despair.
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