The frightening effect of Internet addiction on the brain
Neurosafari Recent research using MRI has shown that the brains of people who use the Internet a lot are similar to the brains of people who are addicted to drugs.
In his book Shallow: How the Internet is Changing Our Brains, Nicholas Carr writes about the eroding effect of technology on his ability to focus: “Once I was a deep diver in a sea of words, but now I ski them on a jet ski.” ».
According to Neurosafari, quoted by Huffington Post, psychologists also talk about the deep impact of this event on our way of thinking and brain. Its first effect, as the author of the acclaimed book Shallow says, is on our ability to focus. Now our lives and our brains are so dependent on technology that we can’t get them out of our brains for a few moments.
Researchers have found out in a study that the generation that has reached the age of teenagers at the beginning of the 21st century is more forgetful than the elderly. Transferring information from the conscious mind to long-term memory requires time and concentration. We rethink information based on its importance and hear it in our brain and recall it through related topics. But what if our attention is constantly distracted by new and contradictory information during this process?
Research results
A study conducted by Columbia University shows that when people think they can get information from the Internet, they are less inclined to remember it. But this effect does not end only with information, and as it is known, technology even changes our brain. While it seems that the virtual world has helped us to become multi-faceted and multi-responsible beings, this phenomenon has its own price. For example, recent research using MRI has shown that the brains of people who deal with the Internet a lot are similar to the brains of people who are addicted to drugs.
An MRI study shows how Internet browsing engages the brain’s neural network system. The photo on the left above shows brain activity while reading a book, and the photo on the right shows the brain activity of a person while searching the Internet. The first activity involves less nerves deeply and the later activity involves more nerves superficially. The study shows that this event causes a change in the neural connections of our brain.
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