Dean Burnett

The Happy Brain

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  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    you’ll know most scientists do not write in this way, so translating impenetrable technical reports of meticulously planned experiments into easily understood copy means a lot of changes have to be made.
  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    oxytocin’s most established role is as a chemical released in high doses during labour and breastfeeding.
  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    Thanks to endorphins, childbirth, no matter how gruelling it is, could be worse.
  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    We have substances five times as powerful as the most intoxicating narcotic just hanging around in our brains – it’s a wonder we get anything done at all.
  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    Expected rewards correspond with an initial dopamine surge, which then tails off. But unexpected rewards correspond with an increased level of dopamine release for a longer period after the reward is experienced.
  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    it typically rewards this behaviour by causing you to experience brief but often intense pleasure triggered by the release of dopamine. And pleasure makes you happy
  • novikurnia26has quoted5 years ago
    Everything we perceive, remember, think and imagine. Every facet of human life involves the brain to some degree. Despite massing just a few pounds, the human brain does a ridiculous amount of work and has hundreds of different parts doing thousands of different things on a second-by-second basis, providing us with the rich detailed existence we take for granted.
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