Andrew Huberman· PhD
Dopamine is a molecule of motivation and anticipation. To illustrate how dopamine works, I want to highlight some very important work largely carried out by the laboratory of a guy named Wolfram Schultz.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Dopamine is a molecule of motivation and anticipation. To illustrate how dopamine works, I want to highlight some very important work largely carried out by the laboratory of a guy named Wolfram Schultz.
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understand that dopamine is released in response to anticipation reward, and that is the fuel for work.
When we think a reward is going to come, it starts to actually arrive earlier in the form of dopamine release. This is the feeling that we experience as positive anticipation.
But most of it, believe it or not, came in the form of the anticipation.