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The computer is like electronic cocaine.
Peter Whybrow, director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, argues the Internet is like “electronic cocaine,” fueling cycles of mania followed by depressive stretches, in our cover story on the Web making us crazy.
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  • 10 months ago [Mon, Jul 9th, 2012 at 3:03pm] via newsweek
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