The Internet changes the structure and function of the brain

Too dependent on the Internet and social networks can make people reduce gray matter, have difficulty concentrating and remembering.

Internet plays an important role in all life activities, from eating, entertainment to connecting friends. However, the team of scientists from Oxford, Harvard, Western Sydney, Kings and Manchester (UK) points out that Internet dependence changes the structure and function of the brain.

Internet search engines also make people dependent on the network, thereby reducing their ability to remember.(Photo: Salk Institute).

The authors found that the testers reported from social networking applications and messages too often suffered gray matter loss in the frontal lobe, the area that maintains concentration when the body faces distractions. For this reason, too many phone users are more likely to get stuck in jobs that require concentration.

Internet search engines also make people dependent on the network, thereby reducing their ability to remember . When conducting brain scans, scientists found that the area of ​​brain memory was less active while humans collected information online.

Previously, another study showed that the number of friends on social networks was related to the function of identifying the names and faces in the right brain. This phenomenon occurs because social networks encourage people to maintain and enroll new friends, thus increasing the ability of the brain to identify.

Overall, there is no good or bad conclusion about the impact of the Internet on the brain. But, spending a lot of time on the Internet changing the cognitive function in the brain is what happens.

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