Internet Addiction Make Your Brain Wrinkles

 

A study reveals that excessive Internet use can make the adolescent brain tends to wrinkle.

Because of that as a parent, it's time to supervise and restrict your children, including adolescents, in using the internet facility.

The scientists found no signs of atrophy (shrinkage) in the gray matter in the brains of adolescent heavy internet user gets worse over time. The results published in the journal Plos One.

According to researchers, the Internet can affect the level of concentration, memory, and the ability of adolescents to make decisions and objectives are implemented. In addition, the Internet also can reduce barriers and encourage teenagers to inappropriate behavior.

Researchers concluded that after doing MRI brain scans of 18 students aged 19 years who spend 8 to 13 hours a day to play online games, six days a week.

Students classified as Internet addicts after answering eight questions, including whether they have tried to quit using the internet and whether they lied to family members about the amount of time they spend online.

The results of the comparison with the control group showed that teenage Internet addicts suffered damage to the gray matter in the wrinkled surface of the brain (cortex), which is where the processing of memory, emotion, language skills, vision, hearing and motor control.

Researchers also found changes in brain tissue called white matter, which pass messages between different regions of gray matter in the nervous system.

According to researchers, this disorder may make adolescents more dependent on the internet and have to face the risk of having IAD (Internet addiction disorder).

"Our results suggest that long-term Internet addiction will lead to changes in brain structure," said researcher who is a neurologist and radiologist at the university and hospitals in China. (Go4/RRN)

Courtesy: www.metrotvnews.com

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