Are You Addicted To Dopamine?

1.Scientists rely on dopamine as a kind of universal currency for measuring the addictive potential of any experience. The more dopamine in the brains reward pathway, the more addictive the experience.  
2.Dopamine is not the only neurotransmitter involved in reward processing but most neuroscientists agree it is the most important. Dopamine may play a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the reward itself. 
3.The internet promotes compulsive overconsumption not by providing increased acess to drugs old and new, but also by suggesting behaviors that otherwise may never have occurred to us. 
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