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Re:The neuroscience of getting and staying motivated (EPFL) by luminadiffusion on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:39PM (#24181591)
There are a lot of missing components here. The article makes it sound like the simple solution to increasing motivation is the glutamine to glutamate ratio. Isn’t that the result of internal neurological and biochemical processes not the causative element?

I think they are confusing correlation with causation.

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Re:The neuroscience of getting and staying motivated (EPFL) by seesawtron on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:41AM (#24184610)
It seems clear that it is a correlation effect and the authors make no argument to conceal that point. But it is definitely interesting to invest more work in studying this phenomemon causally by developing therapeutic strategies based on targeting metabolism to ameliorate deficits in effort engagement.
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