What Exactly Is Dopamine (Understand Dopamine and Understand Psychosis, The Biology of Psychosis)
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The video explains the cognitive model behind psychosis, which primarily involves aberrant dopamine release. What exactly is dopamine? Dopamine's role is to mediate the attribution of salience, converting neutral information into salient or aversive entities that grab attention and influence behavior. In psychosis, understanding dopamine becomes crucial as dopamine becomes the creator of salience instead of the mediator, leading to inappropriate assignment of significance to mundane events.
The video uses the example of a bright blue butterfly in the woods to understand dopamine and how the release correlates with the degree of prediction error between top-down models and bottom-up sensory inputs. In psychosis, excessive dopamine release occurs independently of contextual stimuli, causing the brain to perceive random events as highly salient and demanding explanation.
Now we can start to understand the biology of psychosis. As psychotic episodes persist, the brain tries to develop hypotheses to account for these anomalous prediction errors, leading to the development of delusions and potentially abandoning accurate models of the world. Understanding psychosis becomes essential as the longer the psychosis lasts, the more core beliefs are altered to accommodate the bizarre experiences, potentially resulting in profound delusional beliefs. The video aims to provide an intuitive way to understand psychosis and the cognitive processes underlying psychosis, setting the stage for later videos exploring specific symptoms of schizophrenia.
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0:00 You're in a strange part of our town
0:10 Intro to What is Psychosis?
0:40 Dopamine
3:29 Predictive Processing and Dopamine
6:16 Normal Dopamine Release vs. Psychosis
7:37 Why are these flies landing one me?!
9:09 Abandoning sane views
How confident was your brain of a mismatch when CIA was pronounced incorrectly?
so you did than on purpose, lol. I was wondering if you are not a native speaker LOL
as a mental health technician at a psych hospital, it is fascinating to understand the why behind my psychotic patients behavior. it just makes me have even more empathy for them, bc they really can't control all the tricks their brains play on them. thanks for the great video!
As someone who eats a half vegan diet just cause, I found that name kinda funny haha.
Valid point understandable btw.
You truly have a knack for explaining complex things in an understandable way, thanks for making this video
Much appreciated!
yo this is the best explanation of psychosis and dopamine ive ever heartd. Great job.
Bro seriously, thank you. I've watched countless hours of videos and not a single one explain it better than this. I recently suffered a psychotic break and I am trying to put back together the pieces and all. Great stuff man.
Hey- really appreciate the donation and kind words. Sorry to hear you’re recent struggles. Keep your head up and stay hopeful- you got this.
Alienation refers to the feeling of disconnection or estrangement from oneself, others, or society. It is often described as a psychological state in which an individual feels disconnected from the values, beliefs, and social norms of the culture or society to which they belong. Alienation can be caused by various factors, including social, economic, and political conditions, as well as personal experiences and feelings of isolation or exclusion. It can have a negative impact on an individual's mental and emotional well-being and can lead to feelings of depression, anxiety, and hopelessness.
I really like your video, very well explained, and as a ADHD guy that uses Vivance and start feeling crazy and losing my head more than ever before, I can’t help but relate with that and that lifts me up because it gives me a better glance of comprehension of my case, hope I’ll get out of this unbarrable doubt of my existance one day.
Btw, if I don’t take my pills, can’t work or do anything, I need to face the dilemma, getting crazy is not even a choice, I can’t escape this reality…
I can do sports but that’s it
I have bipolar, and this really helped me to understand my delusions.
Comments like this make my day.
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Same
please make more! i have schizophrenia and i've never believed in the dopamine theory because the meds never worked to get rid of my voices, but when i listened to your explanations, i could see how dopamine could affect delusions.
On a certain level, we have a drug store in our brain, the neurochemicals that show up in flow: so dopamine, norepinephrine, anandamide, endorphins, and serotonin. If you were to try to cocktail the street drug version of that, right, you're trying to blend like heroin and speed and coke and acid and weed- and point is, you can't do it. It turns out the brain can cocktail all of 'em at once, which is why people will prefer flow to almost any experience on Earth. It's our favorite experience. It's the most addictive experience on Earth. Why? 'Cause it cocktails five or six of the largest pleasure drugs the brain can produce. We're all capable of so much more than we know. That is a commonality across the board. And one of the big reasons is we're all hardwired for flow, and flow is a massive amplification of what's possible for ourselves.
This is the best video on dopamine function and psychosis that I have ever seen. Thank you for such a clear analysis and explanation!
Incredible video summarizing a ton of complex topics succinctly and elegantly--thanks so much for making these available!
best description of the dopamine theory ever
LOVE THIS!!
Thanks for the videos!
You're welcome Arne. You don't seem to be as grateful as Ana is for the herpes cure though...
Glad I stumbled upon this, interesting stuff!
Totally not Me, realizing at 1:30 am that I have psychosis triggered by 3 different things, and its been unrecognized and untreated for the last 15 years😬😬😭
Thank you for this video!
The belief system is the core. For a common man religious belief may sometimes play tricks under circumstances.
Love when I discover a great chanel 🤩🤩
Thanks!
Bipolar 1 with psychotic features here. It helps to know what's going on.
Amazing video and very in-depth, how do you find sources?
Thanks! They're in the description... I'll put them here too:
slatestarcodex.com (now astralcodexten.substack.com/):
slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05...
slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12...
slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/20...
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Fletcher PC, Frith CD. Perceiving is believing: a Bayesian approach to explaining the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2009 Jan;10(1):48-58. doi: 10.1038/nrn2536. Epub 2008 Dec 3. PMID: 19050712.
I fucking love this channel
@psychofarm, what has happened with the dopamine levels for a person with BPD who's amygdala has been fired up like in a rage event, or even in rumination?
Is it that the prediction errors are not entirely, contextually irrelevant? In other words, it's maybe a little deal, but it becomes a big deal because too much dopamine is released?
Omfg that voice reading the quote freaked me the FUCK out
Same!
Fascinating
Hi Psychofarm! I love your videos! Do you have a recommendation for where I should go for 4th year electives or psychiatry residency?
JABDUDE my first recommendation is don’t use TH-cam comments for life advice
Who came here from Cobanermani456?
Psychosis is when the internal thoughts become external. You think your mind, or conciousness is represented in the external world. But is it never like that? What about the jungian "synchronicities"? Can it be that sometimes the inner world of a person conjuncts with the external, and if this happens a lot you get confused and start to see conjunctions too often, even when there is none. With dopamine blockage you lose interest, become dull and sedated. You start having problem to focus and keep attention.
If anyone wants to know more of a subjective experience of psychosis or life on olanzapine+abilify+effexor you are welcome to ask me.
Fly lands on a politician, crazy people have theories. Eighty flies land on the politician during the same speech, crawling all over his face while he ignores them, everyone develops psychosis to explain.
Omg the blue butterfly is toxic positivity.
lmao the chorus when he discovers he is Jesus Christ
👢 jesus Schizophrenia
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She sounds nice
Creepy voice was unsettling, not very pleasant, loved the video otherwise