Digital Addiction can cause physical Brain Damage…

http://www.krem.com/video/featured-videos/Digital-addiction-can-cause-brain-damage-137412048.html

Wired-in may not be the best thing since sliced bread.

3 Comments

Dragonrider Gal on January 16, 2012 at 12:26 pm

The researchers also noted that they weren’t sure which came first though, the white matter or the addiction. They had some idea that perhaps it was a problem with the brain that caused a vulerablity to the addiction to begin with. But this is all new territory for us humans, for sure! The answer probably lies somewhere in the middle. 🙂

WOL on January 16, 2012 at 5:29 pm

I agree with Dragonrider Gal who points out that the research is still at the “chicken or egg” stage. I’d be curious to know if it is an anomaly of structure (wiring) or an anomaly of chemistry, or some combination of the two? How is it different from vegetating in front of the TV for hours at a time? And since it is Chinese research, and knowing how tightly their government want to control the internet and restrict what their people can have access to, is the research entirely “agenda-free?”

How is Jane’s hand doing? What’s the latest on the bathroom “can of worms?”

MeMcC on February 26, 2012 at 5:17 pm

(Even though this thread is old and dead, I could not help myself.) They studied a whole 17 subjects? I am not impressed. I spent several years doing marketing studies, and can say with some confidence that 17 subjects yields NO confidence. You need at least 454 subjects/data points to get 95% surety +/- 5% on any study. GIGO. Once they have an additional 437 subjects It may be worth our notice. Of course there is still the question of “agenda” raised by WOL, above.