Enhancing the effects of the brain chemical dopamine influences how people make life choices by affecting expectations of pleasure, according to new research from the UCL Institute of Neurology. The study, published in Current Biology, confirms an important role for dopamine in how human expectations are formed and how people make complex decisions. It also contributes to an understanding of h
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Human Expectation Of Pleasure Enhanced By Dopamine
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April 29, 2009
Give me the child and I’ll give you the adult
The Pew Research Center has a new survey out today looking into the reasons Americans give for switching in and out of religion (and between sects). Apart from the fact that there's a lot of switching going on, there's nothing particularly earth-shattering in it.Apparently the main reason Americans give up on religion is that they just do. Well, really!People also tend to make these life choices
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