Andrew Huberman· PhD
when people with Parkinson's or people who even don't have Parkinson's are told a given drug can increase dopamine and then they put these people into a brain Imaging device it's called a pet device has nothing to do with animals it's the patron emission tomography device and these people had been injected with or consumed something called raclopride it sounds really weird and dangerous but actually ride looks a little bit like dopamine itself chemically and it has a little tag or label on it and it can bind to certain receptors in the brain where dopamine would normally bind what was observed is that the placebo itself was causing reduced binding of this rack Pride to areas of the brain that have dopamine receptors which meant unequivocally that there was more dopamine released in the brain