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.
Now there are reasons why you would have brain circuitry like this. I mean, brain circuitry like this didn't evolve to get you addicted brain circuitry like this evolved in order to motivate behaviors toward particular goals, water when you're thirsty , sex in order to reproduce and we're gonna talk about the relationship between estrogen and testosterone and the dopamine system because those hormones actually bias dopamine to be released.
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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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there are reasons why you would have brain circuitry like this I mean brain circuitry like this didn't evolve to get you addicted brain circuitry like this evolved in order to motivate behaviors toward particular goals water when you're thirsty sex and in order to reproduce these things and these brain areas and neurons were part of the evolutionary history that led to the continuation of our species