Image courtesy of Justin Metz at Newsweek.
Been online for 8 hours today?
Churning through emails, checking Facebook, posting Powerpoints, playing with pixels?
Guess what.
You’re brain is on crack.
MRI scans in the US and China are showing that people who spend 38 hours a week online (that’s not hard) are producing brains that look like drug addicts’.
The grey stuff (the smart stuff that controls motor function, memory, emotion, senses and more) shrinks by up to 10-20%, and the white stuff (involved in spreading messages quicker, attention and decision matter) grows in its place.
Your cerebral cortex, the part responsible for thought, changes shape. And it can start to morph after a week of practice. And it continues to.
So we’re becoming quicker thinkers. But we can’t remember about what.
And we pay more attention to that cat video, but can’t tell someone why it’s funny.
Same goes for gamers; speed, agility and skill vs smiles, memories and living in that weird thing called reality.
The advice from the doctor? Switch off.
More on this at Newsweek.com
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