High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain?: Scientific American - 0 views
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a new study cuts through much of the debate and hints that excessive time online can physically rewire a brain.
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The work, published June 3 in PLoS ONE, suggests self-assessed Internet addiction, primarily through online multiplayer games, rewires structures deep in the brain. What's more, surface-level brain matter appears to shrink in step with the duration of online addiction.
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"I'd be surprised if playing online games for 10 to 12 hours a day didn't change the brain," says neuroscientist Nora Volkow of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who wasn't involved in the study.
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