2023-06-20 20:58:38
A new study revealed that addiction to the phone is somewhat similar to heroin because of the effect it has on the human brain.
According to a report published by The Telegraph newspaper, the excessive use of smartphones negatively affects people’s lives, noting that spending a lot of time in front of a screen is linked to depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and even cognitive changes in the brain.
The report also noted that “excessive use of smartphones and social media can lead to mental distress, self-harmful behavior and suicide among young people,” and added: “Smartphone addiction has also been associated with increased feelings of loneliness, possibly with a detrimental effect on our attention spans.”
The author of the report, Rosa Silverman, used the book “Dopamine Nation” published in 2021 by Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Anna Lempke, and the latter said that “the smartphone provides digital dopamine 24/7.”
For reference, dopamine is a chemical in the brain that makes a person feel happy.
Silverman quoted Anna Lempke as saying, “What is most likely happening is a high in the mind. Browsing and visual stimuli release dopamine in the reward pathways in our brain. When we feel that high diminished, we continue browsing to try to re-raise dopamine levels, which gets us into a vicious cycle of Chasing euphoria, or chasing dopamine.
In the context of her report, Silverman referred to various studies that “showed that the presence of our smartphones makes our performance worse on cognitive tasks,” explaining that “some neuroscientists argue that if we constantly use smartphones to remember tasks, we will make our memory worse, while relying on Our phones for research may reduce the density of a substance in the brain, which may increase the risk of depression and dementia.” (Arabic 21)
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