Habituation in the Dopamine Reward Circuit
How repeated reward exposure shifts baseline dopamine firing and shapes future motivational setpoints.
The brain encodes 'expected' as 'baseline' — repeated reward delivery cools the dopamine response while leaving the felt-want intensity intact. From the LHS Lens, habituation is the cellular substrate of inherited adaptation: what we are conditioned to expect shapes what we feel we deserve, not what brings us alive.
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