Chuck

Then I go out there and I, like, blow my ACL or something.

Oh, God.

That was nice.

So at the highest level, you know, we kind of talked about this a thousand times before, but dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter.

It enables signals to pass through these gaps, these synapses, and make connection from neuron to neuron.

And that's just sort of the bird's eye view.

But

There are all kinds of things that dopamine does, and depending what kinds of neurons it's talking to and it's introducing to one another, it's going to have different effects on the human body.

Did you want to talk about those?

Okay.

The first one is the nigrostriatal tract.

Nice.

You mentioned motor control first, and that's the tract that has to do with motor control.

Yeah.

That movie?

Okay.

The second pathway is the mesocortical pathway.

That has a lot to do with executive functioning.

Yeah.

Prioritizing stuff, how your brain plans things, how it files away stuff, and how it, you know, how it organizes your overall sort of priorities.