Dopamine research

[Madlegs1]

sciencedaily.com/releases/2...

Dopamine and music.🤗

Haven't a clue what this is saying, but may help someone.

[Graham3196]

Thanks for finding it. It sounds like using dopamine for pleasure. Has to be illegal or at least immoral and probably unethical as well.

[Madlegs1 in reply to Graham3196]

But it's just music.😪

[rls_optimist]

Interesting article. The takeaway is that increasing brain levels of dopamine via dopaminergic medications (DAs) increases the pleasure associated with music. This, in turn, causes the person to act in ways so as to increase, or repeat, that pleasure. In this case, that means an increased desire to purchase more music. Although it's less clear, the authors then generalize this, implying that DAs causes people to act in ways that increase pleasure in general. This could explain why some of us taking DAs exhibit certain behaviors like increased gambling, sexual activity, and other problematic activities that can get us into trouble. That is a side efffect of DAs that has been reported before, and this article reinforces that.

I think the new thing here is that they've identified the causal biological link between DAs and the pleasure centers.

[nightdancer]

one of my favorite sites!