Skip to main content

Home/ IB Psychology Crane/ Group items tagged dopamine

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
John Crane

UConn Researcher: Dopamine Not About Pleasure (Anymore) | UConn Today - 0 views

today.uconn.edu/...ine-not-about-pleasure-anymore

psychology BLOA neurotransmitters dopamine Motivation

shared by John Crane on 16 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • John Crane on 16 Mar 14
     
    Salamone, a UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, has spent most of his career battling a particular long-held scientific idea: the popular notion that high levels of brain dopamine are related to experiences of pleasure. As increasing numbers of studies show, he says, the famous neurotransmitter is not responsible for pleasure, but has to do with motivation.
John Crane

The unsexy truth about dopamine | Science - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...dopamine-the-unsexy-truth

psychology neurotransmitters addiction dopamine BLOA nucleus accumbens

shared by John Crane on 29 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • John Crane on 29 Mar 14
     
    Dopamine might be the media's neurotransmitter of choice for scare stories about addiction, but the reality is rather more nuanced
John Crane

Why We're All Addicted to Texts, Twitter and Google | Psychology Today - 0 views

www.psychologytoday.com/...icted-texts-twitter-and-google

dopamine psychology technology addiction

shared by John Crane on 25 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • John Crane on 25 Jul 14
     
    Dopamine makes you addicted to seeking information in an endless loop.
1 - 4 of 4
Showing 20▼ items per page