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Why Are We Addicted To Extreme Sports?

Source: Discovery News

This video explains the relationship between the risk/reward sections of the brain, how dopamine factors into people wanting to take outrageous risks, and the benefits of taking risks every day.

This entry was posted in Taking Risks and tagged People, Science & Nature, Sports on May 1, 2019 by Anita Hacker.

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