Dopamine doesn’t flood the brain as once believed – it fires in exact, ultra-fast bursts that target specific neurons. The discovery turns a century-old view of dopamine on its head and could transform how we treat everything from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to Parkinson’s…
The only thing surprising here is that people thought it worked any other way to begin with. Given that it’s a reinforcement mechanism then it makes sense that it would be both spatially and temporally discrete.
And that’s how it’s been understood for decades. The article creates a silly and false premise.
science reporting continues to be garbage