“Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.” — David Rock Copy Share Image
“heavy video-game playing may release dopamine, which is thought to be involved with addictive behaviors.” — David B. Agus Copy Share Image
“So dopamine is more about anticipation of reward than about reward itself.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Love? Dopamine released in the brain, which gets depleted over time, leaving contempt.” — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“the brain rewards us with more dopamine for the act of seeking a reward than for the act of receiving one.” — Brad Stulberg Copy Share Image
“the brain shows less activity in the ventral striatum, a part of the brain involved in our response to rewards” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Kissing releases dopamine, oxytocin, and serotonin—hormones and neurotransmitters that make you feel motivated, aroused, connected, and content,” — Daphne Nur Oz Copy Share Image
“In other words, dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward… — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
“If there is no phone, there is noise; but if there is a phone, there is silence—just as a crying, unruly baby… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
We know that drugs, sex and rock and roll stimulates something called dopamine in the brain. So do videogames. Dopamine is something… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from...… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act… — Mike Birbiglia 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“From another corner of neuroscience, we’re learning about a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Though there are more than fifty neurotransmitters (that we know… — Jeffrey Foote 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
“A half century after Nidetch’s Mallomar binges, scientists had developed a technology that could see cravings erupting, like solar flares, inside the… — Mark Schatzker Copy Share Image
“Cocaine exerts its euphoric effect by increasing the availability of the reward chemical dopamine in key brain circuits, and this is necessary… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
“Evolution doesn't give a damn about your happiness, but will use the promise of happiness (using dopamine rushes) to keep you hunting,… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
“When men look at pictures of naked women, their startle response to loud noises diminishes. It seems that the dopamine surge mutes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine… — Daniel Goleman 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
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
“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
