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Addiction to cell phones/ This is what your child's brain looks like while using the phone

2024-10-22 07:38:00, Aktualitet CNA

Addiction to cell phones/ This is what your child's brain looks like while

Undoubtedly, the use of electronic devices in most cases negatively affects users, especially children and teenagers.

According to a recent study, scientists have warned that teenagers are much more likely to become addicted to their mobile phones because their brains are still developing at this age and excessive use can completely change them. .

During a British show on "ITV", experts analyzed magnetic resonance images, which showed how the teenager's brain reacts to pleasant experiences such as scrolling through "TikTok" or "Instagram".

As a result, teenagers are prone to become addicted to the use of mobile phones because instead of doing other activities, they look for faster solutions for entertainment.

Professor of neuroscience and mental health Ciara McCabe explained that adults with fully developed brains know when "enough is enough", while today's young people do not think this way.

"When you use something like a smartphone, if you use apps that are fun or useful, it will activate the parts of the brain that are involved in reward. "When you're an adult and you're looking at your phone, you obviously have your brain's reward system activated, but you also have a fully developed prefrontal cortex and it's like a control system ," McCabe explains.

There is evidence to suggest that adolescent or adolescent brains respond differently than adult brains, particularly to rewarding experiences. This is probably because parts of the prefrontal cortex are not yet fully developed in young people.

She explained that this puts teenagers at greater risk of becoming addicted to social media, as their brains get used to the constant hit of dopamine they get when they're online.

Other studies have also produced similar results, and research conducted in the US in 2022 suggests that the brains of teenagers who are constantly influenced by phone content develop differently.





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