I'm just going to start with listing and talking about what I think are the most important

neurochemicals for individuals to be aware of.

Certainly this will help you make informed choices

if you ever encounter any of the common challenges to well-being.

Dopamine is what we start.

It's an excitary neurotransmitter,

which means it increases the neural firing and communication between neurons.

Dopamine is essentially the reward neurotransmitter in the brain. It's involved in motivation, fixated

states of interest, and the secretion of dopamine occurs when we expect a reward or a survival advantage, something

that will make people appreciate us, something that will provide us with food, shelter, something that gives us an advantage.

Dopamine is exciting. The irregularity and unpredictability of rewards actually triggers dopamine and engages and addix this pursuit.

Too little dopamine contributes most profoundly to depression.

Anadonia, which is anadone is a lack of joy and reward in life.

It's responsible for states of apathy and an extreme lack of motivation. What we call

depression is very, very, very commonly symptomatic of diminished presence of dopamine in key regions of

left frontal regions of the brain which are associated with volition making

choices of actions we're going to take.

So raising dopamine is the first line of treatment when someone

presents to a psychiatrist or a doctor or a clinic with lack of joy, meaning, purpose, motivation in their life.

If you're a psychiatrist, the first thing you probably would do would be to prescribe a drug called

Wellbutron, which keeps dopamine presence and prevents it from being reabsorbed by the neurons.

So neurotransmitters work when they're in the synapses,

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