For decades, Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine, has been the world leader in studies of neuroplasticity, dopamine and other reward systems — and now is also working on social reinforcement, empathy and autism.

Here he explains the fuller picture on what dopamine does in the brain — knowledge that can help you understand both the development of healthy and unhealthy thoughts and behaviors.

Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine who has made numerous seminal discoveries of how the brain changes (neuroplasticity) in response to learning and in response to rewarding and reinforcing experiences. Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine and host of the Huberman Lab podcast.

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