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Dan Goodman

Arts & Culture

Experts Say TV Binge-Watching Feels Like A Drug

By  Lynnea Domienik and Claire Hyman
   

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On the heels of the Emmys, Reset checks in with a psychiatrist and professor about how the dopamine from binge-watching acts as a drug.

GUEST: Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and professor at Stanford University, author of Dopamine Nation


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