It is both the duration between desire and effect . And when I say effect , I mean , the rewarding properties of dopamine that are experienced that's important . So very short gaps teach the system to expect and want short gaps makes it very hard to pursue things that take longer .
We'll provide a link to it in the show note captions . The other thing that happens after those big fast increases in dopamine caused by things like cocaine is afterwards when it quickly drops below baseline , it takes a much longer time to get back to the original baseline than it did prior to using the drug . And worse still is that the peaks in dopamine that are created from more consumption of cocaine leads to progressively lower peaks and deeper troughs below baseline .
It's a fascinating uh exploration into dopamine as it relates to addiction , not just drug addiction but other types of addiction . Again , the name of that book is dopamine nation . We'll provide a link to it in the show note captions .
By the way , I highly recommend it if you haven't read it already . It's a fascinating uh exploration into dopamine as it relates to addiction , not just drug addiction but other types of addiction . Again , the name of that book is dopamine nation .
So for instance , let's take cocaine . Cocaine causes dramatic increases in dopamine very , very fast . So if somebody craves cocaine , what are they craving ?
