How does a smartphone change your brain and behavior?

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The quality of sperm may be low due to smartphone or mobile phoneA research result saying that there is a research result and mobile phones are concerned about the bad influence on the human body and a movie which summarizes the influence to human brain and behavior by continuing to use the smartphone "How Is Your Phone Changing You?"Has been released.

How Is Your Phone Changing You? - YouTube


Approximately 6 billion people are said to have cell phones out of the world population of about 7 billion people. Considering that there are 4.5 billion people living in an environment that can use a flush toilet, smartphones are spreading at an astounding rate.


The average use time of the smartphone is 4.7 hours per day, and the state where the smartphone is held just under the eyes and looking at the screen is as much burdens as the 8-year-old girl on the neck is buried in the spine It took.


Modern people use PCs in addition to smartphones, so the proportion of myopia increases in North America. In the 1970s, only a quarter of the population was myopia, but in modern times it has increased to nearly half, and in Asia it is said that 80 to 90% of the population is myopic.


It is very difficult to let go of a smartphone. game"Candy crashLet's think about it as an example. A number of small goals are set for candy crash, and when you achieve the goal while playing, dopamine is released in the user's brain. Once you have cleared the condition and you can proceed to the new level, further dopamine is released.


By releasing dopamine little by little, obsessive-compulsive disorder occurs when you ingest nicotine or cocaine, and the user will be keen to do the goals and progress to new levels in the game. Many smartphone applications constantly notify new arrival information so as not to let users escape.


As a result, 93% of the young people aged 18 to 29 have led to the present situation "to use smartphones rather than to read books in leisure time or get together with friends." Also, due to popularization of mobile terminals, there are "Nomophobia(Nomophobia) "was born.


Due to the influence of mobile phones, not only human behavior but also changes in brain patterns are occurring. It is said that alpha rhythms of brain waves are deeply related to the state of being absent and resting, and the gamma waves of the brain are related to a state consciously paying attention.


According to some experiments, alpha waves are found to be amplified during cellular phone communication, and it is known that communication of mobile phones is literally "changing the function of the brain".


Smartphones can also cause sleep disturbance. The blue light emitted from the screen of the smartphone has been found to go wrong with the human body clock, reducing the deep sleep. When sleep becomes shallow, diabetes, cancer, obesity become easy to become. Also, those who use smartphones until midnight know that the time it takes to go to bed is longer, and that the amount of secretion of sleep hormone melatonin, which is regulating the body clock, decreases.


Harvard Medical Graduate School advises that "Apart from technologies such as smartphones by 2 to 3 hours before bedtime, I often sleep when I read books instead."


Smartphone fundamentally changed the way to look for information. 7% of Americans use only smartphones when connecting to the Internet.


According to the research in 2014, it is said that there are many online banking, medical institution searching, job hunting activities as smartphone usage. Smart phones are not only giving bad bad effects but also positive changes. However, many successful business people have advocated that "in order to improve productivity," smartphone vacation "should be taken".