What SmartPhone Addiction Does to Your Brain Dr. Romie on Fox News Orlando

1. What is smartphone use doing to our brains? • Having the world’s information at our finger tips is making our brains lazy. • Researchers at the University of Waterloo found that people who use their phones to find information tend to react from a gut instinct rather than analyze facts and data • This research provides support for an association between heavy smartphone use and lowered intelligence • Whether smartphones actually decrease intelligence is still an open question that requires future research • But researchers believe that when we turn to our phones for problem solving instead of using our brains, we’re speeding up the process of deterioration on our minds that comes with aging. 2. How do we know if we have a lazy brain from using our smartphones? • Easy knowledge is provided by smartphones, and could be dangerous because it makes us lazy thinkers, Being this type of thinker, we have a difficult time analyzing complex problems • You may be relying too