Dopamine Detox and Pseudoscience

There is a narrative wave in popular psychology and neuroscience that has taken a small amount of very basic science and twisted it into a fantastic narrative of feast and famine. Its central character is dopamine. The Dopamine Detox also known as dopamine fasting is a pseudoscientific treatment that at best illustrates how magnificently strange and evidence-less some claims about dopamine can be. Please leave feedback at https://www.psydactic.com or send any comments to feed...

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A resource for psychiatrists and other medical or behavioral health professionals interested in exploring the neuroscientific basis of psychiatric disorders, psychopharmacology, neuromodulation, and other psychiatric interventions, as well as discussions of pseudoscience, Bayesian reasoning, ethics, the history of psychiatry, and human psychology in general.This podcast is not medical advice.  It strives to be science communication.  Dr. O'Leary is a skeptical thinker who often questions what we think we know.  He hopes to open more conversations about what we don't know we don't know.Find transcripts with show-notes and references on each episodes dedicated page at psydactic.buzzsprout.com.You can leave feedback at https://www.psydactic.com.The visual companions, when available, can be found at https://youtube.com/@PsyDactic.