Brain on Dopamine. How the Work of the Main Motivation Molecule Affects Your Physical and Mental Health

Have you ever caught yourself thinking that another goal has been achieved, but the feeling of happiness never came? Or, conversely, you couldn't tear yourself away from the screen, even though you stopped enjoying it a long time ago?
Your brain is not deceiving you; it's the dopamine system at work—a primitive evolutionary mechanism that helped our ancestors survive for millions of years and now makes us hostages to notifications, discounts, and endless scrolling.

But it's not that dopamine is a 'bad hormone.' The problem is that we don't understand it well.
This book by endocrinologist Anna Aksyonova is about how our main motivation molecule actually works. The author, relying on research from recent decades and the work of leading neurobiologists, unravels the tangle of myths that have surrounded dopamine step by step.