Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain

Mohamed Aboelez
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Published in
4 min readOct 17, 2023

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Balancing Pleasure and Productivity

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In this article, the term Dopamine could have been used in the title, but that might have made it less intriguing, don’t you think? Anyway, in simple terms, Dopamine is a natural substance in the brain that contributes to the experience of pleasure in humans. The reason cocaine has such a powerful impact on the brain is because it causes…

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