SMARTPHONES Change the BRAIN:=== There are plenty of reasons to minimize smartphone use.The devices breed rude behavior and disrupt relationships, for one thing. Evidence indicates that they increase the possibility of developing brain tumors from exposure to EMFs. Now new research reveals that smartphones may affect the brain in yet one more way. According to a study out of the University of Zurich, simply texting on a smartphone changes the complexion of certain regions of the brain.1 The scientists came to this conclusion after hooking up 26 smartphone users to a bunch of electrodes. All of these subjects texted frequently. The researchers wanted to compare the brains of these smartphone users to the brains of users of regular, old-fashioned cellphones—the type of cellphone that you can’t text from or track your Match activity on. And sure enough, it turned out that the smartphone brains differed considerably from the regular phone brains. The EEGs produced in the study indicated that smartphone users indeed do have differences in their somatosensory cortexes compared to regular cellphone users. The smartphone users showed a far greater degree of EEG activity in response to any touch with their fingers, compared to the non-smartphone users. The more often the users texted, the more hypersensitivity they developed in the somatosensory cortex. Regardless, the takeaway here is that all the evidence indicates that smartphones affect our brains on multiple fronts. Perhaps they’re leading to an increased risk of cancer. There’s certainly plenty of good evidence indicating that we should be cautious. On the other hand, perhaps they’re slowly rewiring us, and we will develop new capacities as a result. Time will tell. Dr Santosh
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 04:07:06 +0000
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