The Internet changes the structure of the human brain

05 May 2017, 23:25 | Health
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Frequent use of the World Wide Web and social networks so popular today causes changes in the structure of the human brain -. Surprisingly, brain scans revealed that there is a direct relationship between the number of friends in Facebook and the size of certain parts of our brains, according to an online edition for girls and women aged 14 to 35. Pannochka. Net It is not yet clear whether these changes are positive or negative, since the first department that is increasing due to the active use of the Internet is the memory department, while the second, this is the department associated with the development of autism. In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences, a three-dimensional brain scan of 125 university students.

The dimensions of the individual brain were proportional to the number of human friends in social networks, both in general and "real" friends, that is, those with whom he really communicates actively. "The computer has quite a strong influence on our brain - it develops certain processes and hinders others. However, earlier we could not say the same about the Internet. Now we have to find out another interesting question - will these changes develop with time. "- notes Dr. Kyoto Kanai (Ryota Kanai), one of the authors of the study. The study also notes that in recent years numerous speculations have begun to develop on the topic of significant harm that our computer is being caused by modern computer technologies.

According to the scientists who conducted the analysis, for the most part, these are ordinary myths that are not backed by any facts, since in fact there is little known about the influence of the Internet and computers on the brain - all research on this subject today is limited only to statistical observations, whose authors very often do not take into account Many external factors in drawing conclusions.

It is possible that the new study will also give rise to another hypothesis that the Internet provokes the development of autism. The scientists themselves say that it is more than premature to do such conclusions, at least insofar as the increase in the corresponding part of the brain does not mean that the disease will necessarily develop in the future.

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