Status Updates From Dopamine

Summary chapter 1:
- Passionate love: dopamine driven, excitement disappears when things become familiar and new things draw our attention
- Compassionate love: H&N driven, deep and enduring satisfaction with the present reality
- People that have more dopamine struggle switching from passionate to companionate love (more bedpartners)
- H&N suppresses release testosterone so less

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Summary chapter 1:
- The activity of the dopaminergic reward circuit is pleasure marker and manifests itself as a reaction to the unexpected, possibility, anticipation
- Dopamine responds not to reward, but to reward prediction error
- Therefore it always wants more and things we don’t have

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Summary introduction:
- Dopamine makes to always want more and seek for the things we don’t have
- H&N molecules enable you to savor and enjoy

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