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Neurobiology of motivation

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Rosa Osorio

The document discusses the neurobiology of motivation. It explains that motivation is generated in the brain through the neurotransmitters dopamine, adrenaline, and serotonin. When a person exercises at home, their brain detects a possible reward through dopamine release. This creates an expectation of reward and fuels the sensation of motivation. As the person achieves their goal, such as feeling stronger, they experience a pleasant relaxation sensation from serotonin release, completing the motivational process.

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NEUROBIOLOGY OF MOTIVATION R O S A M A R I A O S O R I O U N I V E R S I T Y E L B O S Q U E B O G O T A , C O L O M B I A
FITNESS LIFE When the quarantine started ... I really felt locked up, bored, out of focus or out of fuel. But I found something that filled me with energy and that became a habit, exercising at home, but before starting I began to inform myself with the fitness life coaches, they all repeated this word a thousand times, MOTIVATION. And I feel what they refer to, I generate a discipline in me, I feel more energetic, I want more and more, I like how my body feels.
REWARD Our attention span can detect possible rewards (in this case feeling stronger or healthier). How do we do to stay focused, when there are various stimuli such as (stress, cell phone, food, among others)? Motivation comes into play.
Neurobiology of motivation
DOPAMINE Which is unpredictable for learning, attention and memory. During this process, the neurotransmitter Dopamine is generated. As we saw in the course, this is important to maintain a sustained focus of attention for a time, to fix learning and knowledge in long-term memory. Motivation "motive for action" is reflected at the cerebral level, by the ascending reticular system (sraa), it travels its way in the dopaminergic pathways that begin in the ventral area and amygdal system, where it is evaluated by the forces called pleasure - pain, but in this case we are going to talk about pleasure, since the exercise in this case is a source of it, my tonsillar system interprets it as a possible reward. Here the information is directed, nucleus accumbens (main dopamine-releasing nucleus).
What it does is create that expectation that something important is going to happen or of wanting to get a reward. It produces other neurotransmitters that further fuel this sensation. Reaches the frontal lobes, where it is interpreted, as fuel, to maintain sustained tension and will make us feel the sensation of effort. Finally, when we achieve this reward (to achieve an objective: to feel stronger). A pleasant sensation of relaxation produced by another neurotransmitter Serotonin is obtained. Finally said process is completed.
SUMMARY DESIRE ACTION SATISFACTION DOPAMINE ADRENALIN SEROTONIN
BIBLIOGRAPHY Simpson, E. H., & Balsam, P. D. (2016). The Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation: An Overview of Concepts, Measures, and Translational Applications. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, 27, 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2015_402 Di Domenico, S. I., & Ryan, R. M. (2017). The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation: A New Frontier in Self-Determination Research. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 145. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00145

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Neurobiology of motivation

  • 1. NEUROBIOLOGY OF MOTIVATION R O S A M A R I A O S O R I O U N I V E R S I T Y E L B O S Q U E B O G O T A , C O L O M B I A
  • 2. FITNESS LIFE When the quarantine started ... I really felt locked up, bored, out of focus or out of fuel. But I found something that filled me with energy and that became a habit, exercising at home, but before starting I began to inform myself with the fitness life coaches, they all repeated this word a thousand times, MOTIVATION. And I feel what they refer to, I generate a discipline in me, I feel more energetic, I want more and more, I like how my body feels.
  • 3. REWARD Our attention span can detect possible rewards (in this case feeling stronger or healthier). How do we do to stay focused, when there are various stimuli such as (stress, cell phone, food, among others)? Motivation comes into play.
  • 5. DOPAMINE Which is unpredictable for learning, attention and memory. During this process, the neurotransmitter Dopamine is generated. As we saw in the course, this is important to maintain a sustained focus of attention for a time, to fix learning and knowledge in long-term memory. Motivation "motive for action" is reflected at the cerebral level, by the ascending reticular system (sraa), it travels its way in the dopaminergic pathways that begin in the ventral area and amygdal system, where it is evaluated by the forces called pleasure - pain, but in this case we are going to talk about pleasure, since the exercise in this case is a source of it, my tonsillar system interprets it as a possible reward. Here the information is directed, nucleus accumbens (main dopamine-releasing nucleus).
  • 6. What it does is create that expectation that something important is going to happen or of wanting to get a reward. It produces other neurotransmitters that further fuel this sensation. Reaches the frontal lobes, where it is interpreted, as fuel, to maintain sustained tension and will make us feel the sensation of effort. Finally, when we achieve this reward (to achieve an objective: to feel stronger). A pleasant sensation of relaxation produced by another neurotransmitter Serotonin is obtained. Finally said process is completed.
  • 7. SUMMARY DESIRE ACTION SATISFACTION DOPAMINE ADRENALIN SEROTONIN
  • 8. BIBLIOGRAPHY Simpson, E. H., & Balsam, P. D. (2016). The Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation: An Overview of Concepts, Measures, and Translational Applications. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, 27, 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2015_402 Di Domenico, S. I., & Ryan, R. M. (2017). The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation: A New Frontier in Self-Determination Research. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 11, 145. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00145