Basics - A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 09 Nov 09
  

  Sue Frantz

  "In the emerging view, discussed in part at the Society for Neuroscience meeting last week in Chicago, dopamine is less about pleasure and reward than about drive and motivation, about figuring out what you have to do to survive and then doing it."

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• 31 Oct 09
  

  organizedagent plentipridence28

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• 29 Oct 09
  

  Rudy Garns

  In the communal imagination, dopamine is about rewards, and feeling good, and wanting to feel good again, and if you don’t watch out, you’ll be hooked, a slave to the pleasure lines cruising through your brain.

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• 28 Oct 09
  

  Carol Furchner

  Dopamine: not so much pleasure and reward as drive and motivation. Mouse with dopamine deficit won't seek food and will starve to death unless food is placed in its mouth. Other studies also reported.

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• 27 Oct 09
  

  aslam karachiwala

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