Laughter, chocolate, and cocaine, all illicit the same dopamine response within the brain, a surge of dopamine which reinforces such behavior. Whilst laughter provides this effect in a natural and healthy way by stimulating the prefrontal cortex and limbic system to trigger dopamine and endorphin release within the nucleus accumbens, chocolate delivers it through the mild psychoactive properties of sugar and cacao compounds, and cocaine hijacks this same pathway with an intensity that overwhelms...
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