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“With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

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“Human beings, the ultimate seekers, have responded too well to the challenge of pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. As a result, we’ve transformed the world from a place of scarcity to a place of overwhelming abundance.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“The more dopamine a drug releases in the brain’s reward pathway (a brain circuit that links the ventral tegmental area, the nucleus accumbens, and the prefrontal cortex), and the faster it releases dopamine, the more addictive the drug.”

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Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

“With repeated exposure to the same or similar pleasure stimulus, the initial deviation to the side of pleasure gets weaker and shorter and the after- response to the side of pain gets stronger and longer, a process scientists call neuroadaptation.”

Pain Pleasure Brain Addiction Neuroscience Pain And Pleasure Dopamine

Book:Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Source: Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence