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> dopamine is heavily involved in motivation and habit formation, which are easily linked to addiction. You could literally say this about most major neurotran
by rjkennedy98 6y ago
> dopamine is heavily involved in motivation and habit formation, which are easily linked to addiction.
You could literally say this about most major neurotransmitters.
Frankly, the fact that the scientific community allows things like the chemical imbalance theory and dopamine addiction theories and other pseudoscience to gain such mainstream acceptance delegitimizes the institution. Scientists should not be defending such statements in the wishy-washy way you did above.
- skohan 6y agoWhat do you mean exactly? Are you arguing that dopamine activity in the Nucleus Accumbens does not play a particular mechanistic role in reward seeking behavior? Or that norepinephrine plays an equivalent role in this mechanism? I'm not sure where I defended the chemical imbalance theory in my comment.