by Lance Carter | Apr 22, 2021
Dopamine is well known as the ‘reward’ neurochemical as we get a boost of it when we have an experience worthy of praise or pleasure.
Research on dopamine’s role in the body also now shows that conditioned fear responses are directly lessened by dopamine release. Called a fear extinction event.., this is where the release of dopamine engages learning in a way that eliminates the fear.
Researchers discovered that when dopamine was disabled from doing it’s job in tests, conditioned fears stayed present over time even though the initial fearful event was not repeated.
With the dopamine re-introduced.., the conditioned/learned fears disappeared quickly.
https://roxiva.com/dopamine-is-an-antidote-to-fear-light-exposure-effects-dopamine-function/
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