Constantly scrolling through your phone, always having a podcast or music on because you cannot bear the silence. Recognizable? You might have a case of dopamine addiction! Or is that not a thing? Together with professors Ruth van Holst and Tim van Timmeren we find out what is true and what works.

A lot of people spend too much time on their phone, on YouTube or find themselves being addicted to something else. But there are differences between substance addiction and other addictions. The latter is usually related to dopamine, a hormone that gives you a feeling of joy and happiness. But can you get ‘addicted’ to this hormone?

Join Pepijn for the twelfth episode of season 3 as he chats with associate professor Ruth van Holst from the Amsterdam UMC and assistant professor Tim van Timmeren from the Utrecht University to dive deeper into this topic. Using our guests specializations in addictive behavior, neuropsychology and neural mechanisms, we talk about what the cause and solutions to addictions are, what dopamine really is and to what extent it plays a role.