How Mindless Scrolling Affects Your Mental Health and 5 Tips to Overcome It

Mindless on Instagram: "The constant act of scrolling through digital content creates a profound disruption to our brain’s attentional networks, particularly affecting the prefrontal cortex’s ability to maintain sustained focus. When we engage in rapid scrolling behaviors, we’re essentially training our dopamine circuits to expect frequent, unpredictable rewards—a pattern that mirrors what neuroscientists call “variable ratio reinforcement.” This creates a heightened baseline of dopamine that ma

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