The Molecule of More

A Beautiful Mind (Nasar), 112
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 139
Berridge, Kent, 45
Bierce, Ambrose, 145
biofeedback, 99
bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), 
138, 189–194
bipolar spectrum, 193–194
birth rates, 206–207
Bizarreness Density Index, 129
brain
amygdala, 164–165
development in adolescents, 54, 
80–81
dopamine-producing cells in, 
198–199
frontal lobes (neocortex), 54, 57, 63, 
80–81, 103, 115, 132
non-conscious activities, control of, 
199–201
secondary visual cortex, 132
ventral tegmental area of, 29–30, 62, 
98–99
Buffalo Bills, 73–74
buyer’s remorse, 34–35
Cabaser (Parkinson’s medication), 49
Caldicott, David, 93
Calhoun, John, 177
Carnegie, Andrew, 192
change
ability to change, 83
and conservatives, 148, 171, 197
and liberals, 148–149, 152, 171, 197
love relationship, 7, 9, 16–17

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and politics, 175–177
and progressives, 148
and 7R allele, 186–187
and stress, 186–187
through psychotherapy, 100–105
and willpower, 99. See also willpower
charitable giving, 155–157
Chatfield, Tom, 55
cheating
and competition, 84–87
infidelity, 97, 136, 158–159, 161, 174
children. See also adolescents
ADHD, 80–83
creating things, importance of, 221
demographic trends, 206–208
obesity, 82–83
citalopram, 168–169
climate change, 203–204
Clinton, Bill, 76
cocaine, 3–4, 38, 40–44, 46, 69, 191
cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), 
100–102, 124
The Committee of Sleep (Barrett), 132
companionate love, 16–18, 21, 23–24, 
136, 149, 158
compulsive shopping, 48
computers
evolutionary computing, 204
human desires, fulfilling, 208
and multitasking, 218
and pornography, 51–53
superintelligent, 204–205
video games, 53–56
Y2K problem, 135
concrete thinking, 172–173
conservatives
altruism, 146, 155, 157
and change, 148, 171, 197
charitable giving, 155–157
empathy, 146, 155, 173
and genetics, 154
goals of, 177–178
government, views on, 174–176
happiness, 159
immigration, views on, 169–171, 173
influencing to become more liberal, 
171–173
intelligence, 150–152
liberal views, difficulty 
understanding, 177–178
loss aversion, 166–167
marriage and sex, 158–160
personality traits, 145–146, 148, 157, 
161
political views, 148, 155–157, 161
pornography, use of, 160
progressive conservatives, 160–161
sex and marriage trends, 158–160
Tea Party, 176
and threat, 167–168
Coppola, Francis Ford, 190
Costanza, George, 14–15
creativity
and abstract thinking, 135, 148
art and science, 134–135
and bipolar disorder, 190
and bipolar spectrum, 194
brain activity, regions of, 126
creative genius dopaminergic 
personality type, 136–137
and dopamine, 63, 128, 139, 141
dopamine and H&N 
neurotransmitters, need for 
balancing, 219–222
and dopaminergic drugs, 128
and dreams, 128–134
group trends versus individuals, 
153–154
and Here and Now 
neurotransmitters (H&Ns), 140, 
219–222
liberals, 148–150, 161. See also 
liberals
and low latent inhibition, 118–119, 
141. See also low latent inhibition

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and mental illness, 109–110, 138–
141, 149, 190
and models of reality, 120–121, 
125–126, 220
and salience, 126
and schizophrenia, 126, 138–141, 
189
stimulating, 126–128
cyclothymia, 193. See also bipolar disorder 
(manic-depressive illness)
D4 gene, 154–155, 184–185, 189, 191. See 
also genetics
Damasio, Antonio, 152
Darwin, Charles, 139
Davies, Ray, 190
delusions, 69, 111–112, 114–115, 139, 
189. See also schizophrenia