Crack and cheese: do things really affect your brain 'like drugs'?

Claims that cheese, sex and Facebook affect your brain in the same way as drugs fundamentally misunderstand how it all worksThe internet is a weird place. Part of this is due to how things linger rather than disappear, as they tended to do with more “traditional” media. Nowadays, people’s jobs can (rightly or wrongly) be endangered fortweets they wroteyears ago. The adage about “today’s news is tomorrow’s fish and chip papers” seems no longer to apply.This is particularly true when a headline or story from years ago can be found by a group or community on a social network that missed it previously, so they share it widely and it ends up in your feeds long after it ’s been “forgotten”. It can be a bit confusing for those of us who grew up solely with televised news. It’s like watching the weekend football roundup when it’s suddenly interrupted by a report that the Berlin Wall has come down.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - Category: Science Authors: Tags: Science Psychology Science and scepticism Drugs Media Source Type: news