Monday, June 12, 2017

Digital Heroin

From a NY Post Article:
We now know that those iPads, smartphones and Xboxes are a form of digital drug. Recent brain imaging research is showing that they affect the brain’s frontal cortex — which controls executive functioning, including impulse control — in exactly the same way that cocaine does. Technology is so hyper-arousing that it raises dopamine levels — the feel-good neurotransmitter most involved in the addiction dynamic — as much as sex.
Read the full article here:

It’s ‘digital heroin’: How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies...




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