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Commonly known as "smartphone addiction", the term "problematic smartphone use" was proposed by researchers to describe similar behaviors presenting without evidence of addiction. [ 1 ] Problematic use can include preoccupation with mobile communication, excessive money or time spent on mobile phones, and use of mobile phones in socially or ...
"Fear of missing out" can lead to psychological stress at the idea of missing posted content by others while offline. The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web and rise of ...
Reading also allows the reader to build empathy while reading about others' life experiences that are much different than their own. It provides a window into someone else's world.
Screen time is the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a smartphone, computer, television, video game console, or a tablet. [1] The concept is under significant research with related concepts in digital media use and mental health. Screen time is correlated with mental and physical harm in child development. [2]
Later, when the subjects were shown new images in the fMRI, the system detected the patient’s brain waves, generated a shorthand description of what it thinks those brain waves corresponded to ...
Research suggests that using the Internet helps boost brain power for middle-aged and older people [17] (research on younger people has not been done). The study compares brain activity when the subjects were reading and when the subjects were surfing the Internet. It found that Internet surfing uses much more brain activity than reading does.
Research shows that, due to the brain's malleable nature, technology has changed the way today's students read, perceive, and process information. [63] Marc Prensky believes this is a problem, because today's students have a vocabulary and skill set that educators (digital immigrants at the time of his writing), may not fully understand.
Emergent neuroscience studies investigated the influence of problematic, compulsive use of the internet on the human brain. [99] Following anecdotal reports and the conclusion by Kimberly S. Young (1998), [ 83 ] neuroimaging studies revealed that IAD contributes to structural and functional abnormalities in the human brain, similar to other ...