Andrew Huberman· PhD
Dopamine is indeed about more than just pleasure, and has much more to do with craving and seeking rewards than rewards themselves.
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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 indeed about more than just pleasure, and has much more to do with craving and seeking rewards than rewards themselves.
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the peak and trough and Baseline that I talked about a moment ago that are associated with craving they look like a peak followed by a trough followed by a return to Baseline and maybe another Peak if you get the reward or a drop below Baseline if you don't or you don't like what you got