We get dopamine in the brain when we like something a lot. Well, cellphones stimulate dopamine, too. So it really is the… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
“Again, dopamine is associated with craving, with novelty and the chase, while happiness and pleasure are something else again.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Schultz’s group has shown that the magnitude of an anticipatory dopamine rise reflects two variables. First is the size of the anticipated… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“On average, dopamine receptor density is reduced in the VTA target regions of obese subjects as compared with those lean subjects (a… — David J. Linden Copy Share Image
“love: a chemical history. ...The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The guy on the video said that the blink of connection on the cell phone when we get a text triggers… get… — Staci Stallings Copy Share Image
“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
“The release of dopamine is a form of information, a message that tells the organism “Do that again.” Dopamine produces the sensation… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Dopamine is not just about reward anticipation; it fuels the goal-directed behavior needed to gain that reward; dopamine “binds” the value of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Altogether, these observations suggest that several processes contribute to psychotic experience: the loss of familiarity with the world, hypothetically associated with noisy… — Andreas Heinz Copy Share Image
“In other words, once reward contingencies are learned, dopamine is less about reward than about its anticipation. Similarly, work by my Stanford… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Mapenzi, kama ilivyo kwa vitu vyote hapa ulimwenguni, hayawezi kuwepo bila kujumuishwa na fizikia na kemia yake! Bila kemia hakuna mapenzi ya… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“The Seeking system was discovered when the psychologists James Olds and Peter Milner implanted an electrode into the middle of a rat… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“This,” Alaric explained to Sarah in what he thought was a kindly voice, “isn’t love you’re feeling. Only dopamine. Because Felix isn’t… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Whether lying in bed, sitting, eating, on the toilet, pushing a stroller, walking the dog, shopping, walking, “listening” to others, talking, driving,… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Each of our cells is a living entity, and the main thing that influences them is our blood. If I open my… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Adding variability increased the frequency of the pigeons completing the intended action. Skinner’s pigeons tell us a great deal about what helps… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Logically, gambling shouldn’t evoke much anticipatory dopamine, given the astronomical odds against winning. But the behavioral engineering—the 24-7 activity and lack of… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“In the basal forebrain there is something called the nucleus accumbens. It is a part of the brain’s reward system and has… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
People say, "I wish I had more motivation today, because then I would try something." But our thinking is backward. The way… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
“The neural-channeling devices attached to your head allow access to the temporal lobe . . . you can have anything you’d like.… — Cèsar Sanchez Zapata Cockaigne Copy Share Image
You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The important thing is that while heroin and cocaine and tobacco and every drug and junk food cause dopamine release, there are… — Neal Barnard Copy Share Image
“Of course, dopamine didn’t evolve for crossing arbitrary lines on the ground. It evolved to release energy when you’re about to meet… — Loretta Graziano Breuning Copy Share Image
Dopamine makes up less than one percent of the brain's neurotransmitters. It's a small portion. Dopamine is released when people are happy,… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
“Why do we envy people with more money? Why do we assume that we’d be happier in their shoes? It’s the dopamine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, suppressing an impulse doesn’t always have to decrease your dopamine—it can actually feel good. The key is the prefrontal cortex, which… — Alex Korb Copy Share Image
“The Dopamine Paradigm by Stewart Stafford Never so connected, Yet, never further apart, A crowded room's isolation, An aspic suitors' false start.… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“Lots of work has examined the genes involved, most broadly showing that variants that produce lowered dopamine signaling (less dopamine in the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Breaking through the fear barrier is a big deal. The dopamine hit that comes with completing a previously insurmountable goal or getting… — Simon Marshall Copy Share Image
“Vanderbilt University scientists had discovered chemically testable differences between psychopaths and others. One was the variance in levels of dopamine, a naturally… — Michael Benson Copy Share Image
