Andrew Huberman· PhD
So if levels of serotonin and dopamine are too low, it becomes almost impossible to experience pleasure. There's a so-called anhedonia. This is also described as depression.
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So if levels of serotonin and dopamine are too low, it becomes almost impossible to experience pleasure. There's a so-called anhedonia. This is also described as depression.
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The lack of dopamine in depressive patients is thought to lead to the anhedonia, the lack of ability to experience pleasure.
If you can actually um increase the dopamine in people's brains, you're going to get less anhidonia, the inability to feel to feel pleasure.