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What we get wrong about dopamine

A collage shows a woman with hooped earrings and long dark hair with a yellow shape drawn on her forehead with curving lines of yellow and orange zaps around it, against a dark blue background (Credit: Serenity Strull)

What we get wrong about dopamine

Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much-discussed neurotransmitter really does to our brains.

Newsflez January 18, 2026

What we get wrong about dopamineSometimes dubbed the ‘pleasure chemical’, dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much-discussed neurotransmitter really does to our brains.