Dopamine internalization

Question 1

What happens every time you click on an internet link?

Answer 1

It releases some dopamine, making you more more motivated to clicking internet links even at a cost to yourself, and i’d assume by extension, that you’d be less likely to do other things that have small costs to yourself (e.g. doing homework)

Question 2

/u/puffpuffray’s testimony

Answer 2

he’s like the life of the party now, wherever he goes. Whereas before he was ignored most of the time

Question 3

Dopamine internalization scale

Answer 3

1 = internalized for last minute, 2 = internalized for last hour. 3 = day, 4 = week, 5 = month.

Question 4

Alex Becker on timeline of a dopamine detox

Answer 4

first 2 days are hard. day 3 you noticeably have more motivation for the things that matter. day 5 is when you really start to get a lot of motivation.

Question 5

How long does /u/dasaad3 say it takes to get your dopamine receptors reset?

Answer 5

90 days

Question 6

Robinson and Berridge 1993 study

Answer 6

famously described a dissociation between “wanting” and “liking” in addiction where addicts develop “wanting” for drugs without “liking”; that is, the incentive driving compulsive drug seeking is independent of its hedonic consequences

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/dopamine-receptors/putting-desire-on-a-budget-dopamine-and-energy-expenditure-reconciling-reward-and-resources-2012/

Question 7

What are two interesting things about the rats pressing the dopamine levers?

Answer 7

it replaced their motivation for beneficial, evolutionarily vital tasks like eating. They literally stopped eating. 2) they literally would walk across electric shocks to hit the dopamine levers

Question 8

Salamone 1991 and 1994 studies

Answer 8

demonstrated that under free-feeding conditions, preference is not altered by changes in dopamine function; that is, dopamine does not increase incentive or alter food preference when no (or low) work requirement is present. In his studies, however, when obtaining a preferred food is associated with a response cost, dopamine increases the effort an animal will exert

https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/relevant-research-and-articles-about-the-studies/dopamine-receptors/putting-desire-on-a-budget-dopamine-and-energy-expenditure-reconciling-reward-and-resources-2012/