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Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Oh, I got you.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

That we're doing all year.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

It was pretty good.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

I love that topic.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

That's what you call an on-sequitur.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

I kind of prefer on stage, but sure, this is great too.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Well, I wonder if your dopamine receptors are functioning as they should.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Yeah, and this may be the most oft-covered stuff-you-should-know thing that hasn't gotten its own title yet.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Yeah, we talk about this stuff all the time, it seems like.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

It sure does.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

So it is, like you said, a neurotransmitter, one of more than 100 of those bad boys functioning in our bodies.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

And like you said, it lets things communicate.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

It's a facilitator, but it gets all the press for its, you know, like the feel-good stuff that you mentioned, addiction behaviors, whether it's gambling or drugs or

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Or the thrill of, you know, those people that walk around on ledges and stuff.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

Yeah, ledge walkers.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

But it does all kinds of things.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

That's just where it makes the newspaper headlines.

Stuff You Should Know
Selects: How Dopamine Works

But we should probably talk a little bit about just the neurotransmitter cycle that it goes through.