Essentials: How to Increase Motivation & Drive

1679.673 - 1701.622 Andrew Huberman

It was a food that they particularly liked. And the animals would lever press for a pellet of food, kind of classic experiment. They'd eat the food and they presumably liked the food because they were motivated to press the lever and eat it, great. They took other rats, They eliminated the dopamine neurons. You can do this by injection of a neurotoxin that destroys these neurons.