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How Video Games Affect Digital Wellness in Kids: Narrated by Darren Criss and Mia Swier

Dopamine is a chemical in your brain, that it uses to send feel-good messages between nerve cells. When we accomplish something, learn something, or discover something new, we get rewarded with dopamine.

Having the right amount of dopamine is important for the body and brain – too much dopamine makes us more competitive and more aggressive. Playing certain kinds of video games — like ones where you collect items as an ongoing reward, or in a metaverse with no clear levels or stopping points – give constant rushes of dopamine as a reward for accomplishment, discovery and newness. But, when your brain gets constant rewards, it starts to need more and more dopamine to feel good – and then playing the game becomes the ONLY thing that offers enough dopamine for us to feel any good at all. Our brain will stop wanting to do anything else.

Learn more or donate now at dopamindkids.org

I’ve been collecting all the behind-the-scenes type videos I could find for quite a while now with the intention of making some sort of master list - not sure if I’ll end up being able to do that, but here, in no particular order, is an assortment of stuff associated with the Pilot.  Some of this stuff may have already been reblogged out there this week, for which I apologize, and there is probably a bunch of stuff missing from this list, for which I also apologize.  Hopefully something here will be enjoyed, examined, screencapped, GIFed, by someone out there - and please, reblog with additions (or higher quality vids) if you know of any!

Launch Shoot Cut promo

Sue and Quinn commercial

“Behind the pilot” visual commentary

A Moment of Glee: Jenna on filming the pilot

Deleted scene - Quinn and Santana tease Rachel in the bathroom

Deleted scene - That’s The Way/Shake Your Booty

Can’t Fight This Feeling extended scene

Dance bootcamp with Zach Woodlee

Casting Sessions Rachel

Casting Sessions Kurt

Casting Sessions Artie

Casting Sessions Quinn

More audition tapes

Deconstructing Glee with Ryan Murphy

Lea Michele first days on Glee set

Mark Salling first days on Glee set

And one thing in print: