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.
Now, there are forms of pharmacology that can shift brain neurotransmitters and modulators in ways that favor creativity. And this is certainly a topic that we we'll go into in more depth in a future episode. But there's an exciting study that was performed just the last year looking at the role of serotonin, another neuromodulator, in divergent and convergent thinking.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
First of all, there is no supplement or drug that you or anyone else can take that will selectively elevate dopamine in only one of the four circuits that I described before. This is just the state of the technology nowadays.