Lembke, Anna (2023) Dopamine and the pleasure–pain balance. SSA Blog,
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In Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist and author Dr Anna Lembke writes about “finding balance in the age of indulgence”. The following edited excerpt examines the abundance of high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli in the modern world, and how this has affected our tolerance for pain and threshold for pleasure.
E Concepts in biomedical areas > Nervous system physiology (brain, neural)
F Concepts in psychology > Motivation
F Concepts in psychology > Behaviour > Choice-making / reward behaviour
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Risk and protective factors
VA Geographic area > International
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