Dopamine
Vitalik Buterin warns that prediction markets are driven by dopamine hits rather than information, suggesting a drift towards hype-driven speculation. Recent social posts highlight the complex role of dopamine in motivation, addiction, and well-being, with discussions ranging from 'dopamine fasting' to its impact on mental health.
About Dopamine
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated with reward, motivation, and pleasure, influencing behavior and well-being.
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1-Year High: 92% on 2025-03-02
1-Year Low: 26% on 2025-12-18
Most Supportive Themes:
- Dopamine and Motivation/Learning: (30%) Posts discussing how dopamine influences motivation and learning, with some suggesting it reinforces these processes.
- Dopamine and Addiction/Habits: (25%) Content exploring how dopamine is involved in addiction and habit formation, particularly concerning social media, pornography, and other stimulating activities.
- Dopamine and Well-being/Health: (20%) Discussions on how dopamine affects mood, focus, and overall well-being, including natural ways to boost it and its role in conditions like ADHD.
Most Critical Themes:
- Dopamine Overstimulation and Negative Effects: (15%) Content highlighting the negative consequences of dopamine overstimulation, such as addiction, reduced sensitivity to natural pleasures, and mood swings.
- Dopamine Fasting and Detox: (10%) Discussions around the concept of 'dopamine fasting' or detoxing to reset the brain's reward system and improve focus.
Top Dopamine News
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"Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behaviour Nature In the nucleus accumbens acetylcholine boosts dopamine release to promote effortful behaviour"
News Link @SpringerNature 2026-01-28T16:01Z 2.1M followers, [----] engagements
"Dopamine is a brain chemical famously linked to mood and pleasure but researchers have found multiple types of dopamine neurons with different functions From dopamine hacking to dopamine detoxes some people have sought to harness this brain chemical to improve their mood and productivity. But its far more complicated than that"
News Link @TC_Africa 2025-09-30T14:00Z 45.9K followers, 252.5K engagements
"Pharmacokinetics trumps pharmacodynamics during cocaine choice: a reconciliation with the dopamine hypothesis of addiction Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Pharmacokinetics trumps pharmacodynamics during cocaine choice: a reconciliation with the dopamine hypothesis of addiction"
News Link @SpringerNature 2023-05-28T14:00Z 2.1M followers, 9M engagements
"Spatial and temporal scales of dopamine transmission Nature Reviews Neuroscience Dopamine is often portrayed as a diffuse slow neuromodulator yet such signalling cannot explain its broad and sometimes rapid roles. Here Liu Goel and Kaeser review recent insights into dopamine release and receptors and present a new framework — the domain-overlap model — for dopamine signalling"
News Link @SpringerNature 2021-09-27T12:00Z 2.1M followers, 12.5M engagements
Top Dopamine Social Posts
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"@thedimitri Question. Do you ever get tired of making hate posts on women everyday or is that your main source of dopamine"
X Link @XacharyGG 2026-02-14T22:38Z [---] followers, 32.6K engagements
"Serie A dopamine watch vs PL billionaire set piece battle"
X Link @Nedao454 2026-02-14T22:02Z 13.7K followers, 78.1K engagements
"@KhalidIzuu Peer pressure and competition with other babes. its not really the gift or flower just somn to show off on socials along with other girlies to farm a type of social status in their world Some girls buy themselves flowers and letters to pose not to feel left out of the dopamine"
X Link @iamtyyyyyy 2026-02-14T19:13Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"This isn't far off the mark but most people still have no idea what's coming. FDVR will one shot 99.99999% of humanity. They simply won't come out of it. (Me included) Most of humanity is just going to become addicts sitting around and living in a dopamine loop consuming hyperoptimized bullshit. People complained about the death of the written word but at least TV and movies were a shared communal experience. Most of humanity is just going to become addicts sitting around and living in a dopamine loop consuming hyperoptimized bullshit. People complained about the death of the written word but"
X Link @AbHomineDeus 2026-02-14T17:07Z [----] followers, 79.7K engagements
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