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Web addicts have brain changes, research suggests
BBC News ^
| 11 January 2012
| Helen Briggs
Posted on 01/16/2012 1:08:55 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies
Web addicts have brain changes similar to those hooked on drugs or alcohol, preliminary research suggests.
Experts in China scanned the brains of 17 young web addicts and found disruption in the way their brains were wired up. [...]
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: addiction; drugs; internet; web; wod; wodlist; wosd
We must declare a War On The Internet - it's for the children!
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Lol.. SOPA, for our own good.
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posted on
01/16/2012 1:15:00 PM PST
by
momincombatboots
(Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Ah, so CHINA discovered this, eh. How revealing.
I wonder how IRAN feels about this? Or the MSM..?
“Your brain is injured, and we have to HELP you...”
Chilling.
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posted on
01/16/2012 1:22:28 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Kathleen Sebelius will be pushing for SOPA now.
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posted on
01/16/2012 1:29:18 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: JustSayNoToNannies
...
So does music.
They talk about this as though it’s a problem, but can’t tell me how I store and retrieve memories/images/smells/music/etc.
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posted on
01/16/2012 1:42:21 PM PST
by
TheZMan
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2794639/posts)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
What does serving in DC for 30 years do to the brain? ;-)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
It isn’t “disruption”, it’s the body following the spirit. Practice piano and the same thing happens. Study for the London cab driver exam and the same thing happens. Immerse yourself in porn and the same thing happens.
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posted on
01/16/2012 2:14:00 PM PST
by
TalBlack
( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: TalBlack
"We are finally being told what clinicians suspected for some time now, that white matter abnormalities in the orbito-frontal cortex and other truly significant brain areas are present not only in addictions where substances are involved but also in behavioural ones such as internet addiction."
Doesn't sound to me much like learning to play the piano.
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posted on
01/16/2012 2:20:36 PM PST
by
JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Dude, I do not ... wait ... what?
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posted on
01/16/2012 2:31:52 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(Nothing will change until after the war.)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Just one more attempt by the dead old-media-monopoly to resurrect their total control of information fed to the serfs. Haha, the monopoly is still busted thanks to the internet, talk radio, and foxnews.
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posted on
01/16/2012 2:40:58 PM PST
by
Neoliberalnot
((Read "The Grey Book" for an alternative to corruption in DC))
To: JustSayNoToNannies
Doesn’t sound to me much like learning to play the piano.”
If you acrtually said something I might be able to respond.
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posted on
01/16/2012 2:55:06 PM PST
by
TalBlack
( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: TalBlack
How's this: the brain changes they describe are quite different from the brain changes that accompany learning. (You might be right about the porn.)
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posted on
01/16/2012 2:59:28 PM PST
by
JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
01/16/2012 3:11:26 PM PST
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
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posted on
01/16/2012 3:25:24 PM PST
by
Riodacat
(And when all is said and done, there'll be a hell of a lot more said than done......)
To: JustSayNoToNannies
How’s this: the brain changes they describe are quite different from the brain changes that accompany learning. (You might be right about the porn.)
Perhaps there is a God and WHAT we choose to immerse our selves in makes a difference in the brain’s response. It would not surprise me at all really. Seems to kind of add something to the “gamblings a disease” argument.
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posted on
01/16/2012 3:38:10 PM PST
by
TalBlack
( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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