成功在於得到的是你想要的，快樂在於想要的是你得到的 Success is what you get is what you want, happiness is what you want is what you get.
報償與成癮 Rewards and Addiction
焦傳金教授
Professor Chiao
多巴胺為貫穿這堂課的大主角，而我剛好看完一本書叫做「女人的大腦很那個」，由露安.布哲婷所著。裡面提及女人大腦在各種不同年齡階層中，因為激素變化所帶來的情許與思考變化。
其中我最印象深刻的是「媽咪大腦」那一章節，作者告訴我們，孩子與母親的肢體接觸可以讓母親的大腦產生大量多巴胺，讓媽咪感到十分幸福、愉悅，這也是為甚麼很多丈夫認為妻子有了孩子後開始冷落老公。而老師上課中說多巴胺事告訴大腦:做這件會很快樂，所以要學習去做，因為能夠帶來正面的結果，因此媽咪大腦就會得到「多和孩子相處會很快樂」的資訊，所以時常想要和寶貝再一起，這也可以解釋為甚麼大多數人(包括我)的童年時光，母親佔的記憶體比例特別高，但我也覺得這不能因此責怪父親，畢竟母親與孩子的連結會從受精並得知受孕那一刻開始有連結，會有更多多巴胺因為孩子而產生是理所當然的。
而還有一個叫做「戒斷症狀」的情形，書中也提到在孩子漸漸長大後離開家裡，母親可能一開始會很痛苦，因為本來每天都有互動，卻突然沒有了接觸，那個會「產生正面效果的行為」消失了，多巴胺的濃度迅速下降，讓母親感到十分不適。可是在一陣子後，因為身體也習慣了，所以這個不適感會漸漸減輕，最後母親就比較不會因為孩子的離開而感到痛苦。
雖然多巴胺似乎將很多生活中的情緒解釋得十分合理，可是我認為世界上不是每一個事件都能夠用一個物質或定理去概括，因為我相信媽咪對孩子的愛不會只有因為多巴胺才產生的!
It is believed that dopamine plays an indispensable role in our brain to control our emotion of happiness. While I have finished a book called ‘’ The Female Brain’’ written by Louann Brizendine. The book said that the female brain will be affected by different hormone at different period of life.
The most expressing chapter was the ‘’ Mommy Brain’’. Louann told us that as mommy touches the baby, the brain release dopamine that makes mommy feel happy so that in order to keep the comfortable feeling , mommy often wants to hug baby all the time. This is why some daddies feel jealous when their wives have babies. The knowledge is reported that the dopamine teaches our brain that what would makes us happy and force us to do that thing to keep the happiness existing.
However, there is also a Withdrawal Symptoms happened in mommy brain. When kids grow up and leave home, mommy sometimes feels pain because they loose the touch with children and the concentration of dopamine falls down quickly so that it makes mommy felt uncomfortable. Whereas the body get in used to the concentration of dopamine, mommy will not feel so suffering anymore.
While the dopamine explains almost everything happy things reasonably, I consider that there are a lot of things can not be explained in one theory or law. Mommy’s love to baby is forever!!
