Dopamine Jackpot! Sapolsky on the Science of Pleasure

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/02/15/Robert_Sapo...

Robert Sapolsky, professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, compares dopamine levels in monkeys and humans. Sapolsky argues that in both, "Dopamine is not about pleasure, it's about the anticipation of pleasure. It's about the pursuit of happiness." Unlike monkeys however, humans "keep those dopamine levels up for decades and decades waiting for the reward."

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Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Museums of Kenya. Dr. Sapolsky is the author of several works of nonfiction, including A Primate's Memoir, The Trouble with Testosterone, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers and Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals.

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[iwantanoctopus]

HARDEST.CORE.BEARD.

[Mike Ox]

This is why I love playing the lotto

[harrgroath1]

I aspire to have a beard like this one day.

[Julius gaius]

Exactly

[micheal sky]

I miss you more and more everyday :(

[micheal sky]

I think you should fuck me in the ass, passionately, I miss you :(

[FerrisPermentoe]

So if i deprive myself of pleasure i am going to feel pleasure. Thanks science.

[FerrisPermentoe]

What a ridiculous thing to say. You need to masturbate yourself into a coma.

[micheal sky]

We have a good imagination.

[Ronald Portocarrero]

He looks like an old Leonard Hofstadter explaining some Amy Farrah Fowler's research.

[QuiteNot]

Yeh concentration goes up for men, but for women the opposite happens, Elaine: Winnie the ?.....pooh, hahaha, one of the best episodes ever ; )