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The evidence that scrolling social media delivers dopamine hits is not really very strong, whatever the popular story says.

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What Masud Husain actually said

  1. Masud Husain Professor of Neurology at the University of Oxford
    One is yes, I agree with you that this sort of behavior, doom scrolling, etc. occurs, but I think the evidence that there are dopamine hits when you're doing this isn't really very strong.

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