Alexander Schmid Podcast

In this episode of Consilience Conversations, Dr. Matt Roos and I discuss (a) reward and pleasure, their differences, and how the neurotransmitter dopamine mediates the former; (b) the relationship between Dante's "Purgatorio", habit formation, and how the brain/body adapts to the world by developing skill, and (c) we considered one's capacity to use executive functioning to attend to and alter formed habits of action or thought developed during one's childhood past when one's brain (prefrontal cortex) was less mature. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support