How does the hormone Dopamine effect your brain in the long run?

Question: How does the hormone Dopamine effect your brain in the long run?
- Keywords:
  brain,
  dopamine,
  hormone,
  neurotransmitter
Asked by 0ligray28 to Akshat on 20 Jun 2011.
- Akshat Rathi answered on 20 Jun 2011:
  
  It has far too many it turns out. Dopamine has many functions in the brain, including important roles in behavior and understanding, voluntary movement, motivation, punishment and reward, sexual gratification, sleep, mood, attention, working memory, and learning.

Question: How does the hormone Dopamine effect your brain in the long run?