Psychopathological Links

Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) offers infinite connections and the ability to express oneself to the world. But are these connections and images of self-based upon fact or fiction? Through selective self-presentation, people often present the “ideal self” instead of the “actual self” in the online environment to achieve the feeling of positive self-esteem. In “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am”, Peggy Orenstein writes of how her Twitter posts reflected an idealized version of her life. Two studies support the hypothesis that such editing can have a positive effect on personal self-esteem. “Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem” by Amy Gonzales presents a study demonstrating

Social media has been widely used in the United States and the rest of the world. These sites influenced the way we communicate, but, what about our health? According to the National Center for Biotechnology, researchers have found that the use of social media has increased the number of psychiatric disorders

Some people may wonder what effect social media has on people worldwide. Many people are using social media daily and because of that, they might not know the effects that can be lurking behind a screen and causing harm to their mental health. Social media has many negative effects on mental health. Some people could think that mental health and social media has no relation, when it does. It is a fast-growing issue with many “cause and effect” reasons behind it. Each cause needs to be recognized along with the effect it has on the people who use social media.

Technology has made communication easier by connecting people globally through social media. However, with a constant barrage of attention, people find it necessary to always be connected. Humans are social creatures that crave attention and praise. With technological development,

Most people are uptight about the likes and comments they receive on social media websites, Carr formally proclaims. All of the popular websites use this method to receive more people active on them. Doing this urges people to share personal details about their life. “...people share four times as much information about themselves when they converse through computers as when they talk in person” (Carr 3). It is not necessary for people to share an extreme amount of details about their lives, but they still do.

With evolving technology comes new types of social media, people have begin to question the internet’s effect on our mentality. It is a bit difficult to compare the pros and cons of social media, it has more to do with an individual’s experience.  Some could be having a horrible time due to social media, but others could be thriving off of it.  The more negative implications of using social media could be the way that we share our personal lives and how much of it we give to the public, regardless of social relationships, to consume.  Along with this, we are deeply impacted by what we see from others based on our viewing of what they share because of the ability to create falsified identities and unrealistic interpretations of who we are

Dopamine is commonly known as “The Reward Molecule.” It resides in the central nervous system and influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion. More specifically, dopamine is responsible for reward-driven behavior and pleasure seeking. “Every type of reward seeking behavior that has been

Dopamine establishes different levels of the neurotransmitter in both the dorsa striatal and ventral striatal-prefrontal as dopamine is released. The dopamine released in the ventral striatal determines how strenuously individuals perform repeated tasks over time and the dopamine released in the dorsa striatal determines the speed in which the actions occur (p. 645). According to Luck, Wevrick & Vitaterna (2016) dopamine plays a crucial role in reward-associated behavior such as gambling, drug use, and over-eating, hence the word dopamine is often paired with the term “pleasure system.” Associations with dopamine have been correlated with feelings of enjoyment, pleasure and rewarding experiences and the reward canal is concentrated on dopaminergic neurons located mostly in areas of the midbrains (448-449).

Dopamine plays a large part in the reward system of our brain, and helps us with

Dopamine is a famous chemical. It holds a prized position in the annals of popular science as the “reward” drug. Countless articles refer to the latest studies of foods, sex and exercise as boosting dopamine, and, by implication, pleasure. But is this characterization correct? What does dopamine actually do?

They cause a pleasurable effect that reinforces this behaviour. Naturally this rewarding effect is caused by food, drink, sex and by nurture. A key component in this reward circuit is the mesolimbic dopamine system. This set of nerve cells originates in the ventral tegmental area (VTA).When the VTA gets stimulated it communicates by sending electrochemical signals down its axon to the axon terminals. There is causes the synaptic vesicles to fuse with the synaptic terminal and the neurotransmitter dopamine is released into the synaptic cleft. The post-synaptic neuron takes up those neurotransmitters with its receptors at the end of its dendrites. Neurotransmitters that did not get taken up by the receptors will be transported back into the pre-synaptic VTA neuron. These signals will be received by the neurons of the dopamine sensitive nucleus accumbens, as well as other regions of the limbic system, such as the pre-frontal cortex. Imaging techniques showed the activation of these parts of the brain in study participants who were administered cocaine and could successfully be paired with feeling of euphoria and craving (Breiter et

Inside brain ,dopamine plays important roles in motor cortex , motivation , conditioning and reward .Dopamine is produced in the limbic system particularly in ventral tegmental area and substantial nigra .Dopamine itself is also found in some food but since it can not penetrate to blood brain barrier we can not use it in regulatory function .

Dopamine is a naturally occurring neurotransmitter that stimulates the brains reward centre. It’s responsible for those pleasurable feelings we get from things like eating nice food, falling in love, laughing and addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling and sex. That being said, it’s easy to understand why dopamine is closely linked to sex addiction.

Author Sally Robertson discusses how dopamine functions in the brain. Dopamine is a member of a class of molecules called the “catecholamines”, which serve as neurotransmitters and hormones. In the brain, dopamine serves as a neurotransmitter and is released from nerve cells to send signals to other nerves. Dopamine has already been proven to have roles in thinking, memory, movement and reward. However, researchers have shown that dopaminergic neurotransmission plays a central role in modulating pain perception and analgesia within certain parts of the brain including the insula, thalamus, basal ganglia, anterior cingulate cortex and periaqueductal gray. In cases of acute pain suffered after an injury, pain signals are sent from the site of

The popularity of social media giants such as Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are on the rise and so is our nation's overall poor mental health status (The State of Mental Health in America). Studies have shown that there is a direct link between our social media obsession and our poor mental health (Walton). Social media can lead to feelings of comparison, jealousy and even delusional behavior. Another effect that social media has on our mental health is that it often leads to feelings of sadness and loneliness. Lastly, social media addiction is one of the many things that affects our mental health. Studies show that social media is often the cause of poor mental health, it can cause comparison, jealousy, loneliness and lastly addiction.