Dopamine will play a large role in the pathway of addiction that we will discuss in this course

Dopamine will play a large role in the pathway of addiction that we will discuss in this course. Read through the following blog (https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/dopamine-smartphones-battle-time/) from Trevor Hanes of Harvard regarding the reward system and social media. After this, read through the following article from U Penn on Social Media and the Pandemic (https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog/2021/april/instagram-vs-reality-the-pandemics-impact-on-social-media-and-mental-health). In your video response answer the following:

1) Now understanding a bit more of how the reward system is wired in the brain, how it releases, rids, and gets ready for the next round of release, talk me through a research experiment that you would be interested on looking at based on this understanding and the readings you moved through.

2) Are you a self diagnosed “social media junkie”? How has covid affected this?

Finally, I thought you would find the following website (https://untamedscience.com/blog/brain-chemicals/) and its information about company manipulation interesting.