Nervous Habits - Episode 59: Our Lives Are Driven By Dopamine: How A Single Chemical In Your Brain Explains Every Decision You’ve Ever Made with Professor Daniel Lieberman

Nervous Habits with Ricky Rosen

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by the Best-Selling Author of “The Molecule of More” and Professor and Vice Chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, Dr. Daniel Lieberman to explore issues including….

—How dopamine explains why we only want things until we get them, and then we don’t want them anymore…

—Why the key to happiness involves a transition from future-oriented dopamine to present-oriented neurotransmitters like serotonin…

—How to tell if someone has a dopaminergic (dopamine-driven) personality…

—Why we tend to go through life always at the same base level of happiness, and finally…

—How to manipulate the dopamine circuits in your brain to solve your problems through dream incubation.