The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Dopamine is what we call a neuromodulator. Neuromodulators are different than neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are involved in the dialogue between neurons nerve cells. And neurotransmitters tend to mediate local communication. ... whereas neuromodulators influence the communication of many neurons.
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Neuromodulators influence the communication of many neurons in the nervous system. What this means is that dopamine release changes the probability that certain neural circuits will be active and that other neural circuits will be inactive.
So volutric release is like dumping all this dopamine out into the system. So dopamine is incredible because it can change the way that our neural circuits work at a local scale and at a very broad scale.