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I think it's perhaps a somewhat over-simplification of how people conceptualize dopamine's role in the brain is even though its major important role is for it to be active and released during highly reinforcing experiences—like sex, like really good food, like drugs of abuse—it also can get activated in subdivisions of this system during painful stimuli and during aversive
stimuli.
Robert Malenka
Dopamine's Release Signals Something Important Happening in Our Environment
Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brains Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices
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