The Science of Dopamine
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Essentials: How to Focus to Change Your Brain
Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
Optimize & Control Your Brain Chemistry to Improve Health & Performance
Optimize & Control Your Brain Chemistry to Improve Health & Performance
Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
00:17:13 Dopamine Dynamics, “Wave Pool” analogy
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
00:15:23 Value Function, Reward & Punishment
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Dr. Terry Sejnowski: How to Improve at Learning Using Neuroscience & AI
00:11:31 Reward, Arousal, Memory & Dopamine
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
00:14:57 Hyper-focus
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ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
01:40:41 Dopamine, Eating & Context
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Dr. Zachary Knight: The Science of Hunger & Medications to Combat Obesity
00:29:20 How Dopamine Impacts Testosterone & Motivation
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Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Science of Stress, Testosterone & Free Will
01:03:26 Tool: Deliberate Cold Exposure & Dopamine
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
01:00:00 Addiction, Dopamine Depletion, & Replenishing Dopamine
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
02:10:02 Social Connections, Oxytocin & Dopamine Release
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:07:00 Dopamine, Happiness & Impulsivity
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Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction
00:39:10 Dopamine vs. Serotonin Across the Day; Tool 7: When to Do Rigid vs. Creative Work
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Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones
01:47:40 Tool 8 Intermittent Fasting: Effects on Dopamine
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
01:34:26 How Dopamine Influences Vision & Vice Versa
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The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals
01:19:57 Dopamine, Motivation & Pleasure in Seeking Goals
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The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals
00:15:30 Two Main Neural Circuits for Dopamine
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:18:50 Tool: Curiosity & Dopamine
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Dr. Charan Ranganath: How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols
00:41:47 Boys Sexual Development, Dopamine Reinforcement & Pornography
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Dr. Jonathan Haidt: How Smartphones & Social Media Impact Mental Health & the Realistic Solutions
00:43:00 Why Increasing Baseline Levels of Dopamine Prior To Learning Is Bad
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How to Learn Skills Faster
00:53:25 Tools: Maintain Baseline Dopamine Levels
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
01:15:28 Smart Phones: How They Alter Our Dopamine Circuits
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:46:46 Tool 4 Caffeine Increases Dopamine Receptors
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
02:08:34 Augmenting Dopamine Levels: Casein, Gluten, Vitamin E, Vitamin B6 (P5P)
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Dr. Kyle Gillett: How to Optimize Your Hormones for Health & Vitality
02:07:00 Tool 13 Phenylethylamine (with Alpha-GPC) For Dopamine Focus/Energy
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:17:30 Perceptions & The Spotlight of Attention
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How Your Brain Works & Changes
01:08:31 Tool 11: Random, Intermittent Reinforcement; Cognitive Rewards
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Goals Toolkit: How to Set & Achieve Your Goals
00:10:15 The Reward Pathway: An Accelerator & A Brake
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:48:00 The Chemistry of “I Won, But Now What?”
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:32:01 L-Tyrosine, Dopamine, Motivation, Mood, & Movement
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How Foods and Nutrients Control Our Moods
01:05:22 Subjective Control of Dopamine and Drug Effects: The “Adderall” Experiment
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
01:07:50 Tool 5 Ensure Your Best (Healthy) Dopamine Release
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:56:30 Fun “Feels Fast” BUT Is Remembered as Slow; Boring Stuff “Feels Slow,” Recall As Fast
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Time Perception & Entrainment by Dopamine, Serotonin & Hormones
00:14:03 Dopamine, Placebo & Parkinson’s Disease; Placebo Controls
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How Placebo Effects Work to Change Our Biology & Psychology
01:53:50 Tool 9 Quitting Sugar & Highly Palatable Foods: 48 Hours
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:54:50 Disambiguating Pleasure and Drive: Dopamine Makes Us Anti-Lazy
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:09:58 What Dopamine (Really) Does
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:06:27 Dopamine Brain Circuits
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
01:45:46 Deep Focus, Dopamine
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Dr. Charan Ranganath: How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols
00:43:54 White Noise Can Enhance Learning & Dopamine
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The Science of Hearing, Balance & Accelerated Learning
00:43:54 White Noise Can Enhance Learning & Dopamine
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The Science of Hearing, Balance & Accelerated Learning
00:28:53 Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation, Social Comparison
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Marc Andreessen: How Risk Taking, Innovation & Artificial Intelligence Transform Human Experience
00:12:43 Novelty; Reward & Punishment Response
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Dr. Kay Tye: The Biology of Social Interactions and Emotions
01:09:03 Caffeine May Protect Dopamine Neurons, Methamphetamine Kills Them
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:30:50 Dopamine, “Addictive Liability” & Route of Administration
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
01:58:30 Tool 10 Mucuna Pruriens, Prolactin, Sperm, Crash Warning
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
01:11:53 Gambling, Intermittent Reinforcement, & Persistent Goal Seeking (Bad and Good)
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
01:22:50 Blinking, Dopamine & Time Perception; & Focus Training
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ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus
00:22:03 Fast and Slow Effects of Dopamine
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:55:46 Tool: Deliberate Cold Exposure & Focus, Dopamine & Epinephrine
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Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration
00:18:14 How Dopamine Is Released: Locally and Broadly
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
01:46:01 Dopamine & Learning, Water Content & Food
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Dr. Zachary Knight: The Science of Hunger & Medications to Combat Obesity
00:17:34 Context, Cues & Dopamine Modification
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
01:11:06 Mood, Creativity & Dopamine
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The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation
00:24:00 Pain-Pleasure Balance Controls Addiction
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Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction
00:19:56 Serotonin & Dopamine
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Dr. Matthew Johnson: Psychedelic Medicine
00:44:37 Working Memory, Dopamine
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Dr. Mark D'Esposito: How to Optimize Cognitive Function & Brain Health
01:24:06 Habit-Reward Circuits Are Flipped in Anorexics: Reward for Deprivation
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Healthy Eating & Eating Disorders - Anorexia, Bulimia, Binging
01:10:57 Nicotine: Dopamine, Possible Neuroprotection, Prolactin Increase
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:50:51 Reinforcement vs. Reward, Wanting vs. Liking
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
00:54:22 Dopamine Levels & Working Memory, Cognitive Tasks, Genetics
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Dr. Mark D'Esposito: How to Optimize Cognitive Function & Brain Health
01:07:40 ADHD & ADD: Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder
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How to Focus to Change Your Brain
00:45:52 Tool: Foods to Improve Focus & Regulating Food Volume
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Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration
01:28:45 Tool 6 Stimulating Long-Lasting Increases in Baseline Dopamine
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:17:34 Context, Cues & Dopamine Modification
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
01:18:58 Dopamine Trough Recovery, Postpartum Depression
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Leverage Dopamine to Overcome Procrastination & Optimize Effort
02:21:42 Immediate Gratification, Effort & Struggle, Dopamine
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Dr. Becky Kennedy: Overcoming Guilt & Building Tenacity in Kids & Adults
00:25:38 Memory & Reward Scaling
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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain's Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
00:47:53 Tool: Caffeine & Focused Work, Dopamine Efficacy, Alertness
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Focus Toolkit: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration
00:50:03 Never Say “Maybe” (Reward Prediction Error)
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
01:00:22 Cold Exposure for Dopamine, Mood & Focus
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Using Deliberate Cold Exposure for Health and Performance
01:01:42 Dopamine & Time, Marshmallow Test & Distraction
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Morgan Housel: Understand & Apply the Psychology of Money to Gain Greater Happiness
01:58:37 Estrogen & Dopamine, Cognition; Tool: Physical Exercise
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Dr. Mark D'Esposito: How to Optimize Cognitive Function & Brain Health
00:34:22 Dopamine, Learning; Curiosity & Appraisal
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Dr. Charan Ranganath: How to Improve Memory & Focus Using Science Protocols
01:37:55 Tool 7 Tuning Your Dopamine for Ongoing Motivation
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Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction
00:45:08 Prolactin, Post-Satisfaction “Lows” & Extending the Arc of Dopamine
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
00:08:56 Dopamine Fundamentals: Precursor to Adrenalin
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How to Increase Motivation & Drive
01:46:32 Dopamine-Enhancing Medication & Arousal Arc
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Dr. Rena Malik: Improving Sexual & Urological Health in Males and Females
