I’m pretty excited. I was doing some research on addiction and the brain this morning; there is a strong correlation between a mutated dopamine D2 receptor and addiction and I wanted more information. On some level I like to know that my more malignant attributes (alcoholism, binge eating, hyperactivity) are the result of a variation in my pleasure controlling mechanism and it is NOT MY FAULT.
I was scrolling through scholarly articles such as these where pedants refer to people as “homo sapiens” and use words like “transduction” with impunity:
The Physiology, Signaling, and Pharmacology of Dopamine …
