Workout:
No workout - Rest Day
Reading:
I listened to more of "The Great Courses: Behavioral Economics". The lecturer is getting into "Neuroeconomics", or an inter-disciplinary field somewhere between Econ/Psychology/Neuroscience. The lecturer talks about how dopamine is associated with a feeling of "wanting". He sites an example where dopamine was used to help treat Parkinson's and the patients report becoming addicted to gambling while on the treatments. The lecturer also talks about how the amount of dopamine released in the brain is associated with the level of expectation as compared to the level of reward. If the reward is large and unexpected, this releases a lot of dopamine. If the reward is expected to be large but is small, this results in a steep drop in dopamine levels.
No workout - Rest Day
Reading:
I listened to more of "The Great Courses: Behavioral Economics". The lecturer is getting into "Neuroeconomics", or an inter-disciplinary field somewhere between Econ/Psychology/Neuroscience. The lecturer talks about how dopamine is associated with a feeling of "wanting". He sites an example where dopamine was used to help treat Parkinson's and the patients report becoming addicted to gambling while on the treatments. The lecturer also talks about how the amount of dopamine released in the brain is associated with the level of expectation as compared to the level of reward. If the reward is large and unexpected, this releases a lot of dopamine. If the reward is expected to be large but is small, this results in a steep drop in dopamine levels.
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