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Internet addiction disrupts nerve wiring in the brains of teenagers, a study has found.
Similar effects have been seen in the brains of people exposed to alcohol, coc aine and cannabis. The discovery shows that being hooked on a behaviour can be just as physically damaging as addiction to drugs, scientists believe.
Originally posted by mileslong54
Yea the internet is physically damaging because your learning the "truths" they don't what you to know.
What a croc of poo! Free information is only harmful to the ones controlling you.
Nice post, Thanks for sharing!edit on 11-1-2012 by mileslong54 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by domasio
I call BS on this. If this were the case, in repetitive behaviours being damaging to the wiring of the brain, then I suppose people that are addicted to extreme sports, or addicted to reading all the time, or people that make an effort to "be nice" as much as possible, have damaged brains?
Pathetic the kind of research they try to push on people nowadays. It is more likely that the s**t we have to eat, drink, breathe and wash with everyday has disrupted brain wiring, rather than addictive behaviours.
I personally think that most scientific research nowadays on human health is totally invalid, and that the only way it could be valid would be if there was a completely healthy way of living, with no pullutants in food, air, water, cleaning products, beauty products etc.
Originally posted by syrinx high priest
Originally posted by domasio
I call BS on this. If this were the case, in repetitive behaviours being damaging to the wiring of the brain, then I suppose people that are addicted to extreme sports, or addicted to reading all the time, or people that make an effort to "be nice" as much as possible, have damaged brains?
Pathetic the kind of research they try to push on people nowadays. It is more likely that the s**t we have to eat, drink, breathe and wash with everyday has disrupted brain wiring, rather than addictive behaviours.
I personally think that most scientific research nowadays on human health is totally invalid, and that the only way it could be valid would be if there was a completely healthy way of living, with no pullutants in food, air, water, cleaning products, beauty products etc.
newsweek had an article this week on ways to be smarter, and #4 was get rid of the smartphone. it really hampers concentration and focus. mutlitasking has been replaced by this weird quasi-attention thing where people just aren't dialed in, aren't focusing with what is at hand, they spend 20 seconds on something , than wham-o it's onto something else
that's disruption