Is your smartphone frying your brain? (Nope…but we better prevent constant distractions)

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Is Your iPhone Real­ly Fry­ing Your Brain? Five Things You Need To Know (Forbes):

“…since the announce­ment of the first iPhone ten years ago this week, con­cerns about devices turn­ing their users into mind­less drones seem to have reached a fever pitch. So is the inter­net real­ly bad for your brain? Here’s what we know…“The aver­age IQ of the pop­u­la­tion at large has been increas­ing every 10 years,” says Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, who runs Sharp Brains, an applied neu­ro­science com­pa­ny. “IQ is not the only thing that mat­ters, but if some­thing was very, very harm­ful for our brains, we would have already noticed it there.”

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“We have to be very care­ful with chil­dren,” Alvaro con­cedes. “[Smart devices] can cre­ate an addic­tion if they are exposed too ear­ly. Adults also have to pre­vent con­stant distractions.”

To learn more:

• The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains
• 20 Must-Know Facts To Har­ness Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty And Improve Brain Health