How do we as individuals manage temptation/addictions? And, do we manage all the same? I will begin with a temptation that I have, which is ice cream. Do we avoid the issue by not keeping ice cream in the house at all? My dad struggled with tobacco addiction all his adult years. He would quit …
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Blog 176. Learning and Dopamine
This link is for the technically-minded, but I show some highlights below. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6352318/#:~:text=Novel%20experiences%20have%20been%20shown,in%20different%20memory%20consolidation%20processes From Chris 😃 my good friend and fellow Yeshiva graduate with a DHL. She also “happens to be” a brilliant neuroscientist. LTP = long-term potentiation “Novelty,” new learning, induces dopamine release in the hippocampus, triggering memory consolidation to boost memory persistence. We …