Dr. Kent Berridge
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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Usually the dopamine system is working with them sort of hand in glove.
It's a circuit, but they are separable components.
And when dopamine system is hyperactive on its own without acting on these pleasure opioid and cannabinoid and other components,
Well, many reasons, I think.
I mean, one is that the notion that dopamine is the pleasure neurotransmitter, that's a meme.
As we said, it began 40 years ago, and it's partly true because it's a reward neurotransmitter.
Reward is pleasure, yes, but it's also wanting.
They do go together.
So dopamine is contributing that wanting side to reward.
It's still part of the reward system.
The meme is so powerful that it's just never going to go away, I think.
Even in neuroscience, there are some people who still will adopt it, although usually not people who are really in addiction neuroscience anymore.
So that's a mistake that we just have to live with.
Yeah, I think that's fair.
And, you know, there may be reasons why people say that, even if it's not the final answer.
Well, but there are for the dopamine pleasure notion.
I mean, in defense of the people who say it, it is true that when you encounter something pleasant, you know, tasty food, a drug or other pleasant event, dopamine systems activate.
They do activate, so they go along with the pleasure.
Now the question is whether they're causing the pleasure or whether they're being caused by the pleasure to make you want to even further this thing that's caused the pleasure.
Usually many people don't get to that stage of asking that question.
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