Dopamine and habits

Habits are the autopilot of our lives, but what keeps them running smoothly? The answer lies in the complex interplay of neural pathways and chemicals, with dopamine playing a starring role.

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Learning about Learning

Here we are creating a mental model of how learning occurs. It is a get-in, get-out, don’t-f-about type of model. We skip the low-down explanations of neurons and move straight to representations. How do representations form? how do they interconnect...

Running empty on dopamine by end of day

Did you know that your motivation and drive slowly deteriorate as the day progresses? The culprit behind this phenomenon is a tiny structure deep within your brain: the Nucleus Accumbens.

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Taking on the Camino for Ovarian Cancer

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  • Follow Ingrid Clancy’s progress step by step, on her picture blog at http://bit.ly/IngridClancy2024 (please “Follow” and “Comment” there to give her encouragement ! )

  • Ingrid is raising funds for the Powell-Drescher Ovarian Cancer Research ...

How to control your emotions. A Game theory perspective.

Do you remember being 8 years old? Do you remember getting angry? or sad? or happy? The absolute overwhelming takeover of your body. You were not even you; you just became the emotion.

Overtime, presumably, you have learned to somewhat control your e...

Just how important is exercise?

You were made to move.

The modern world often robs us of this. Sitting with a bag of chips. Drowning in a doom scroll. On your little screen, withering. lol. Too strong?

Just get outside and do something! (I am yelling at myself more than you).

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Taking on the Camino for Ovarian Cancer

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How tribal divides form.

A grand fracture that divides. A schism in opinion on a massive scale. This article explores the dynamics of tribal divides. As this is a midflip article, pleas...

Running empty on dopamine by end of day

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