The mesocortical pathway and dopamine play a role in motivation, procrastination, and goal pursuit.

“now the fourth dopamine pathway in the brain is the so-called tubero infundibular pathway and this is not one we're going to focus on too much today this is a pathway that relates to connections between the brain and your pituitary gland your pituitary gland being that gland that's as I mentioned a moment ago is also receiving input from the hypothalamus and is releasing a bunch of hormones into your bloodstream things like luteinizing hormone follicle stimulating hormone things like melanocortin hormone these are hormones that are impacting everything from the function of the ovary in females to the function of the testes and males it's governing things like cortisol release under stress thyroid hormone meaning it's regulating thyroid hormone release and on and on dopamine has a very powerful impact on the output of the pituitary”