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Please stop calling dopamine the ‘pleasure chemical’

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Author: [[Angela Chen]]
Full Title: Please stop calling dopamine the ‘pleasure chemical’
Category: #articles
URL: https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17169446/dopamine-pleasure-chemical-neuroscience-reward-motivation

Highlights

If you kill off the cells that produce dopamine, the animal is not motivated to go out and do things.