The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So much addiction, that's a severe case, but also so much waxing and waning of motivation. And once you understand the dopamine system and you say, "What activities am I engaging in or pharmacology am I engaging in? What am I doing to spike dopamine?"
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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but more importantly by understanding what are called dopamine dynamics that is what gives rise to Big peaks in dopamine or troughs in dopamine or what's referred to as our Baseline level of dopamine which turns out to be our Baseline levels of motivation and feelings of well-being