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Neuroscientist: "Even A Little Bit Of Social Media & Porn Does This To Your Life!" | Andrew Huberman

Tom Bilyeu

Andrew Huberman explains that dopamine functions less as a signal for reward and more as a biological currency driving motivation, craving, and the pursuit of new experiences. He cites classic experiments where rats with depleted dopamine could still enjoy food but lacked the drive to work hard enou …

How Dopamine & Serotonin Shape Decisions, Motivation & Learning | Dr. Read Montague

Andrew Huberman

Dr. Reed Montague challenges the popular misconception that dopamine simply signals pleasure, explaining instead that it functions primarily as a learning signal and an algorithm for updating expectations in real-time. Drawing on decades of research involving rodents, AI algorithms like those develo …