
Dopamine Expert: How TikTok Is Physically Rewiring Your Brain (Permanent Damage?)
Endless pleasure from digital technology trains the brain to feel worse, not better, creating a hedonic treadmill where dopamine crashes follow every spike

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Dr. Anna Lembke is Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. With over 25 years of clinical experience treating substance and behavioral addictions, she is the bestselling author of 'Dopamine Nation' and a leading expert on how modern technology hijacks the brain's reward system.

Endless pleasure from digital technology trains the brain to feel worse, not better, creating a hedonic treadmill where dopamine crashes follow every spike

Dopamine is not about pleasure itself but about the anticipation of reward and motivation, regulated by a pain-pleasure balance system in the brain