Dr. Kent Berridge
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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That's right.
Kind of measure out the dose.
But once you've got things like car, which can clump, you know, even if it's the, the dealers have intended to mix it into the, to the hair and other things.
But if there's a clump of car that remains in a person gets that clump,
that's the lethal dose.
So if it was a drug company, they would take special, special measures to make sure it was all evenly distributed.
But the clumps in what's being sold on the street, clumps can be still there.
And that's what's lethal.
Oh, healthy wanting is essential.
The same dopamine system that's causing addiction in all of us every day is giving us zest for life.
It's making life worth living in a real way.
It's giving us the healthy desires to engage in life and pursue things that are good for us and good for others.
So it's a wonderful system that we wouldn't have evolved without it.
It's a crucial system.
It can sort of go into a hyperactive mode in certain situations, in certain individuals, and that's where problems begin to arise.
Well, there are other sides, other phases of the wanting system.
You know, we've been focused on addiction, which is reasonable, but there's other kind of clinical conditions that dopamine and this wanting system is relevant to, like in depression and schizophrenia.
They've been always considered in textbook psychiatry to have anhedonia as one of their symptoms, anhedonia where things in the world are not normal.
worth pursuing.
But it turns out if you ask them the pleasure of these things, they often will give you normal pleasure ratings for many of these patients.
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