Chapter
The Relationship Between Pain and Pleasure.
19:50 - 30:18 (10:28)
In neuroscience, pleasure and pain are co-located meaning that the same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain. This relationship is significant because indulging in high reward behaviors or substances may lead to a dopamine deficit state, similar to clinical depression.
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The pleasure and pain center of the brain, from the same region, balance the seesaw of addiction.
19:50 - 23:01 (03:11)
Summary
The pleasure and pain center of the brain, from the same region, balance the seesaw of addiction. In this episode, Cal Newport and the host talk about research on pleasure, pain, balance and how it affects addiction.
ChapterThe Relationship Between Pain and Pleasure.
EpisodeDr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction
PodcastHuberman Lab
The brain's pain mechanism has a higher competitive advantage over the pleasure mechanism in addictive substances or behaviors, causing the feeling of pain to be higher than pleasure.
23:01 - 26:14 (03:12)
Summary
The brain's pain mechanism has a higher competitive advantage over the pleasure mechanism in addictive substances or behaviors, causing the feeling of pain to be higher than pleasure. These behaviors release dopamine in our brains' reward pathway, leading to addiction.
ChapterThe Relationship Between Pain and Pleasure.
EpisodeDr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction
PodcastHuberman Lab
Indulging in high-reward behaviors or substances can lead to down-regulating the brain's dopamine receptors and transmission, resulting in a dopamine deficit, similar to clinical depression, and leaving the person in an anhedonic state.
26:14 - 30:18 (04:03)
Summary
Indulging in high-reward behaviors or substances can lead to down-regulating the brain's dopamine receptors and transmission, resulting in a dopamine deficit, similar to clinical depression, and leaving the person in an anhedonic state.