Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
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Brain breakthrough: Dopamine doesn't work at all like we thought it did
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Wow so really using certain medications to flood the brain is like using a bazooka vs how dopamine is meant to be more precisely distributed.
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We don't have many legitimate medications that would do what you're saying.
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Exactly! People will look back at us akin to how we look at people who were given cocaine for a sore throat years ago
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Please share with the class what medication you're vaguely alluding to
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Probably amphetamines, people love to shit on amphetamines when it comes to their use in treatment of ADHD. Most of that criticism comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of both chemistry and biology.
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Agreed. It's eugenics when you hammer down into it.
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Yes, that's always been more or less the case. However, the brain's uptake/use of neurotransmitters like Dopamine has been understood for decades to have at least some specificity to it. We always knew we were shooting flies with shotguns, though.
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