IFL SCIENCE: How High Internet Use May Change Our Ability To Concentrate

Press/Media: Research

Description

Writing in World Psychiatry, an international team of researchers suggest that Internet use "can produce both acute and sustained" brain changes, specifically in areas associated with cognition. This means everything from memory recall to attention to sociability could be affected by our affinity for social media and Google search.

Period6 Jun 2019

Media coverage

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Media coverage

  • TitleHow High Internet Use May Change Our Ability To Concentrate
    Media name/outletIFL Science
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryCanada
    Date6/06/19
    DescriptionWriting in World Psychiatry, an international team of researchers suggest that Internet use "can produce both acute and sustained" brain changes, specifically in areas associated with cognition. This means everything from memory recall to attention to sociability could be affected by our affinity for social media and Google search.
    URLhttps://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-high-internet-use-may-change-our-ability-to-concentrate/
    PersonsJoseph Firth

Keywords

  • mental health
  • internet use