Dopamine in Pain, Pleasure and Memory Formation #shorts
00:00:00.000 | I don't wanna say it's a mistake.
00:00:02.000 | I think perhaps somewhat oversimplification
00:00:06.200 | of how people conceptualize dopamine's role in the brain
00:00:11.080 | is even though it's a major important role
00:00:14.480 | is for it to be active and released
00:00:17.340 | during highly reinforcing experiences like sex,
00:00:21.280 | like really good food, like drugs of abuse.
00:00:24.400 | It also can get activated subdivisions of the system
00:00:28.360 | during painful stimuli and during aversive stimuli,
00:00:32.840 | which again are really important for you to be aware of
00:00:36.040 | to say, "Oh my God, that's really bad for me."
00:00:40.520 | And so the dopamine system, this reward circuitry
00:00:44.700 | and its subcomponents that maybe perhaps signal more salience
00:00:49.700 | or aversion in the environment are closely tied
00:00:53.680 | to arousal systems and memory systems.