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Oleg Batluk

Web-mad Hongkongers have digital dementia - and we're losing our memories | South China... - 1 views

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shared by Oleg Batluk on 18 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • Frequent use of digital devices is causing memory loss among Hongkongers
  • brain health experts have even coined a name for the condition: digital dementia.
  • correlation between more frequent usage of digital devices and self-reported memory loss in daily life and at work.
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  • the cognitive challenges and attention problems that result from overuse of digital technology.
  • Almost all respondents (95 per cent) owned at least two digital devices
  • bio-behavioural sciences
  • Respondents who spent more than six hours daily on their digital devices were more likely to report experiencing forgetfulness in the past month compared to those who spent fewer hours
  • the survey for first time shows this connection between overuse or higher use of digital devices and more complaints of memory disturbances in Hongkongers
  • "digital immigrants"
  • In his 2008 book iBrain, Small talks about "digital natives"
  • The survey also found poor dietary and exercise habits among the respondents
  • The term digital dementia was coined a few years ago in South Korea, after doctors reported seeing young patients with memory and cognitive problems, conditions that were more commonly linked to brain injuries.
  • Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul, South Korea: "As people are more dependent on digital devices for searching information than memorising, the brain function for searching improves whereas an ability to remember decreases
  • Dr Manfred Spitzer, a German neuroscientist and author of the 2012 book Digital Dementia: What We and Our Children are Doing to our Minds,
  • warns that children who spend too much time on electronic devices could experience irreversible deficits in brain development.
  • multitasking teens
  • The devices are not all bad," he says. "It's really about content, context and dose
  • balance the online time with offline time
  • Oleg Batluk on 18 Dec 15
     
    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
  • Oleg Batluk on 18 Dec 15
     
    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
  • Oleg Batluk on 18 Dec 15
     
    Digtal overdose and multitasking digtal natives with "Inspector Gadget Syndrome" ((c) Batluk) can lead to medically diagnosed digital dementia which can be avoided by offline online balance
Oleg Batluk

Most preschoolers use tablets, smartphones daily - WDAM-TV 7-News, Weather, Sports-Hatt... - 2 views

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shared by Oleg Batluk on 02 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • The study of 350 children in a low-income, minority community suggests that an income-based "digital divide" is shrinking.
  • some parents might be using technology as a surrogate babysitter.
  • The older the children were, the more likely they were to have their own technology.
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  • one-quarter of 2-year-olds needed no help using a smartphone or tablet, the findings showed.
  • Oleg Batluk on 02 Nov 15
     
    Mobile technologies are getting close to infant ages though might be dangerous as surrogate babysitting. 
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