Dopamine overload dulls the sensitivity of your brain’s reward pathways, creating a state of constant craving without satisfaction (Lembke, 2021). You chase new rewards—another promotion ...

Dopamine design aims to make finance feel more like a dynamic part of a lifestyle rather than a list of tedious financial ...

Whenever a bird practiced, dopamine levels in the bird’s basal ganglia started to ramp up. It didn’t matter whether they hit all the notes or missed the mark. In other words, any effort at singing ...

This is dopamine at work — a brain chemical ... a bit like cutting away extra branches on a tree, to make the “reward pathway” faster. This sounds efficient, but it’s not great.

When dopamine levels are artificially increased too often, such as through excessive social media use or junk food ...

Many everyday skills, such as speech, are not innate. They are learned through trial and error. Now, by analyzing young ...

Dopamine, a brain chemical, plays a pivotal role in the brain’s pleasure and reward circuits by regulating ... that supports the brain’s natural pathways of dopamine production.