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Your brain under the influence of devices
It looks innocent enough, but that cell phone has a dark side. When it comes to the brain, your smartphone is a drug delivery device. Ever been hooked up to a morphine pump? When you hit the button, the pain is gone. Instead of morphine, the smartphone gives us hits of dopamine which is the extremely addicting reward juice of the brain. You hear that ping that tells you you’ve got “incoming” and yum, your brain gets a dose of dopamine. It’s your friend texting you, yay, another dose. You read and respond, “OMG LOL” and it’s another dose. You get into your car, and text her again. Bam, a dose. You buckle up and take off. She responds while you’re blazing down the highway and that dopamine is so powerful, you look away and pick up the phone before you fully engage your brain to make decisions. You don’t see the truck stopped in front of you. The End.
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Your brain under the influence of devices
It looks innocent enough, but that cell phone has a dark side. When it comes to the brain, your smartphone is a drug delivery device. Ever been hooked up to a morphine pump? When you hit the button, the pain is gone. Instead of morphine, the smartphone gives us hits of dopamine which is the extremely addicting reward juice of the brain. You hear that ping that tells you you’ve got “incoming” and yum, your brain gets a dose of dopamine. It’s your friend texting you, yay, another dose. You read and respond, “OMG LOL” and it’s another dose. You get into your car, and text her again. Bam, a dose. You buckle up and take off. She responds while you’re blazing down the highway and that dopamine is so powerful, you look away and pick up the phone before you fully engage your brain to make decisions. You don’t see the truck stopped in front of you. The End.