What Is Dopamine For, Anyway? Love, Lust, Pleasure, Addiction?

Published July 3, 2013

What Is Dopamine for, Anyway? Love, Lust, Pleasure, Addiction?

Filed under: Crack Cocaine’s Effects Body

Dopamine is a chemical in your body. … The effects of dopamine release depend on where it's coming from, where the receiving neurons are going and what type of neurons they are, what receptors are binding the dopamine (there are five known types … Read more on Slate Magazine

Food Is Addictive

Filed under: Crack Cocaine’s Effects Body

Unlike spikes in the brain's "pleasure centers" when it gets a hit of nicotine or cocaine, no chemical change occurs in the brain when eating food. Or does it? … In effect, the men were experiencing a flavor of the addictive high associated with … Read more on KCET