Dr. Ali Binazir: Unplug or Die: Kill Gizmo Addiction Before It Kills You

As a recovering user of modern all-connected, all-the-time communication media like email, phones and text messages (henceforth dubbed collectively as gizmos), I’m well aware of how they can all create compulsive behavior. They do it by tapping into the brain’s reward circuit and operant conditioning, the association of stimulus with reward.