Dopamine, you are essential to routine!

 

One of my favorite ways to highlight a topic is a vision board. When I first became introduced to this concept in undergrad my creativity ran wild flipping through magazines cutting and gluing until the paper was filled with ideas. Therefor, I decided to choose this method to highlight my assigned neurotransmitter, Dopamine. To better understand the vision board it might be helpful to understand just what dopamine's function in the body is. It plays a large role in voluntary movement, memory processing, and is released from our brain during feelings of inspiration, motivation, reward, or pleasure!

SO MANY FUNCTIONS, right?!

Since dopamine is a jack-of-all-trades neurotransmitter, I wanted to represent a variety of different activities, and things that individuals may find enjoyable or rewarding. 

What makes you want to... conquer goals, remember cherish-able times, love others, keep pushing forward, make a change, dream big, and dress like you're glad to be alive?...Well we all have different reasons but all those reasons spark that sense of motivation, keeping our ambition running wild. 

P.S- incase you have not picked up on it yet, that spark is dopamine. 💥🧠

Pictures from: Various authors. (2016, 2018, 2019). Various periodical publications.