Dopamine – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I watched an interview recently, of Simon Sinek, the author and inspirational speaker, about the impact of Social media on millennials’ behaviour. He attributes “Dopamine” as one of the main reasons that plays a scientific role in our addiction to Social media apps. This led to me scouring the internet about dopamine and its impact on our social media addiction. As per WebMD, Dopamine is a chemical, type of a neurotransmitter and our nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. It plays an important role in motivating behaviour in addition to various other metabolism in our body. Lack of it or an excess of it, could lead to medical issues as per Medical journals. But more important to my area of interest, was better explained in an article – Dopamine, Smartphones & You: A battle for your time by Trevor Haynes – a research technician in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Dopamine influences mental health, as all pleasurable experienc