Web addicts have brain changes, research suggests

BBC News ^ | 11 January 2012 | Helen Briggs

[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. [...]

[JustSayNoToNannies]

We must declare a War On The Internet - it's for the children!

[momincombatboots]

Lol.. SOPA, for our own good.

[gaijin]

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.

[GraceG]

Kathleen Sebelius will be pushing for SOPA now.

[TheZMan]

...

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.

[1776 Reborn]

What does serving in DC for 30 years do to the brain? ;-)

[TalBlack]

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.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

"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.

[ClearCase_guy]

Dude, I do not ... wait ... what?

[Neoliberalnot]

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.

[TalBlack]

Doesn’t sound to me much like learning to play the piano.”

If you acrtually said something I might be able to respond.

[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.)

[Tunehead54]

Way no true this is! ;-)

[Riodacat]

[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.)

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.