Assessing baseline dopamine levels in the nigrostriatal circuit by mood can help leverage tools for creative processes.

“I think it's very useful for people to start to pay attention to what their tonic level, that is their baseline level of dopamine ought to be in this nigrostriatal circuit and in other circuits. And to do that by learning to assess one's mood and pay attention to what mood they happen to be in. And then to leverage tools. Behavioral tools, maybe pharmacologic tools provided they're safe and they're legal in order to either increase dopamine or to elect not to increase dopamine in order to access the creative process.”