Andrew Huberman· PhD
Contrary to popular belief dopamine controls motivation, craving and drive, not pleasure per se.
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Contrary to popular belief dopamine controls motivation, craving and drive, not pleasure per se.
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Most people when they get that dopamine release, it causes a triggering of the desire for more. Right, people think of dopamine as pleasure. Dopamine, there's a book, great book called, "The Molecule of More." I didn't write the book unfortunately, but someone else did and it's a great book and it's really about how dopamine we think it's about pleasure, but it establishes craving.
it's fair to say that dopamine is responsible for wanting and for craving and that's distinctly different from the way that you hear it talked about normally which is that it's involved in pleasure