CJ Foster
Mrs. King
ACC ELA 4-5 Hr
14 November 2016
Are computers bad for brains?
Using technology and getting too much screen time can actually make you die earlier, studies have concluded that significant time in front of a screen can lower cardiovascular health outcomes and increases mortality risk. In many ways, computers can be harmful to your body and brain. They can affect people physically and also psychologically in lots of ways with many symptoms or effects. Also can be very addictive and hurt specifically the prefrontal cortex of the brain with the releases of dopamine.
It has been said that prolonged technology use can have social and psychological effects, potential damage family life and being able to focus, also linked to obesity.
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In 2005, a medical term for some of these problems was made. It was called computer vision syndrome, or CVS for short. About 90% of the 70 million American workers that use computers daily for over three hours experience CVS in some form said the Survey of Ophthalmology, a peer-reviewed journal. Some symptoms of computer vision syndrome include eEyestrain and eye fatigue, head and neck aches, blurred vision, nausea, and irritation and can be seen in people using a computer several days a week for hours on end. The main reason people develop CVS is because unlike a book or magazine, where they would look away much more, they stare without blinking at the screens of computers and other electronics. Bertie Bregman, M.D., chief of family medicine service …show more content…
This area of the brain forms late in human development and isn't fully active until teenage years. Damage to the prefrontal cortex can result in lots of different things like you become more reckless, lose a sense of sequence and consequence, of narrative and of your place in these sequences. The brain has many chemical reactions, one being the release of dopamine when associated with immediate sensual gratification, and can influence the prefrontal cortex. Taking amphetamine or cocaine releases large amounts of dopamine into the brain making it addictive. It's the same with screen exposure and the playing of lots of games and other things on computers for hours on end. Using computers and other technologies is a series of logical tasks that demand immediate attention, which are to do with process, and not with content or substance. And this immediate sensual gratitude from doing so causes the release of the dopamine just like the use of the drugs, but in a smaller scale but can be much easier to access and can also have an addicting affect. So using computers as children for prolonged periods of time can be harmful to the
“Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of our Era”, “‘Plug In’ Better: A Manifesto”, and “Your Brain on Computers”: A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of the Methods by which the Authors Convey Their Ideas Technology and our exposure to it are changing our lives; of this there is no doubt. The issue regarding what form that change will take and the effects of it on our physical and emotional health, however, are more contentious, and experts’ opinions on it run the gamut. In “Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of our Era”, neurologist Dr. Richard Restak examines what effect technology has on our brains, and posits that technology, as well as the increasing demand on our brains to perform multiple tasks at once, is causing a decrease In “‘Plug In’ Better: A Manifesto”, technology writer and commentator Dr. Alexandra Samuel states that she believe that there is a middle ground between completely “plugging in” and “unplugging”. She states that we should approach our online interactions in the same ways we approach our offline ones.
From communicating with one another to researching for an essay, these high-tech gadgets are constantly being used. Unfortunately this is slowly becoming a danger to the human mind and an individual's ability to carry out simple tasks. This can be shown through the examples in Carr’s novel. He states multiple times that technology is damaging the brain and is struggling to do the simple tasks it should be able to do. Through his multiple examples, it is clear that technology is hurting us because we can no longer contemplate, concentrate, remember certain details, and more. Although, we cannot avoid using technology, we should be mindful of how often we use
This makes kids forget how to socialize with one another and not know how to carry on a conversation. Along with socialization becoming obsolete, technology causes addiction, and the replacement of jobs throughout America. The reasons why technology is impacting society in a negative way is how people are forgetting how to socialize and becoming antisocial, automatics are taking the place of jobs for humans, and the internet is making millions addicted along with more mental health problems.
Certain effects of your brain can be in jeopardy by using too much technology. Articles below by Nicholas Carr, an American writer who writes about technology and culture, and Matt Ritchel, an American writer and journalist, will inform you on how. Using technology can have certain effects on the brain. Nicholas Carr’s magazine blog, “The Web Shatters Focus, Rewrites Brains,” tells us about an experiment from ULCA professor, Gary Small. Gary Small performed his experiment on the study of brain activity.
Although Though technology can be good, it can be worse than good, such as people always with their faces on their phones and headphones in their ears, people neglecting books and using more online text, and people wasting their lives watching TV.Children now know how to use a phone faster than they can
...ttention and focus to reduce the negative impacts on development of children. Research suggests that technology use and especially computers enhances development of children when properly used. On the other hand, the uncontrolled use of technology in childhood education may produce negative effects and impair development in children. Uses of technology in childhood education range from enhancing social interactions, language development to initial computer use skills. It is important to note that, technology use in children education is a matter of how it can be harnessed for the purposes of learning in children. Research by health professionals argues that technology use in children education can produce detrimental health effects especially obesity. Thus, children exposure to technological gadgets like computers and tablets among others should be greatly checked.
The past two decades have overwhelmed the human experience with technology, along with all its distractions. The direct relationship between the mind and the body’s ability to adjust from these distractions can be extremely difficult .Further research has shown that it has become an addiction for many. Technology has significantly improved our lives as a whole through experiences such as Global Positioning System (GPS), cell phones and social networking allowing us to communicate with different people around the world. These technologies make our daily lives easier and more efficient. However, this also discusses the effects of technology on various aspects of our everyday personal experiences both with each other and with the world around us. On the other hand technologies such as cell phones have become a problem in getting students to focus in class and distracting drivers and thus, resulting in vehicle accidents. Technology is beneficial, but can also become an inescapable distraction in our lives. It is important to view technology as having the ability to make our lives better or worse, yet also as having the ability to change our personal lives and behavioral patterns.
While generations of today have witnessed countless technological advances, there are also downfalls to these progressions. Technology interferes with education, attention spans, relationships, social interactions, self esteem, and even creativity. In order for technology to have more pros than cons, it is pertinent to keep a clear perspective. Monitoring how much you or your children spend time using electronics is the key to making sure that technology is not harmful.
The first reason why modern technology contributes to negative health problems is that children overuse technology, which impact on their physical health.
According to The Huffington Post, people are on their devices for, on average, about eleven hours and fifty-two minutes a day. That is almost half a day and a lot longer than most people sleep or work. People have not yet realized how they or their families are being affected by this constant use of technology. As a result of technology increasing, children are experiencing health problems, school issues, and social problems. First and foremost, health problems due to the increase in technology usage is becoming a bigger issue than one might think.
One risk consumers take is that products not tested for deadly chemicals can be potentially fatal. Practitioner Erica Etelson, in her article “Is Modern Technology Killing Us?”, argues there are over 80,000 chemicals in consumer products that have not been tested, but are assumed to be safe by the consumers. These chemicals’ effects on humans have not been looked into yet and if some happen to be toxic to the human body, consumers risk their lives on buying innocent-looking toys, such as a teddy bear. In addition to potentially toxic chemicals, several studies (not sponsored by the industries) show that radiation from Wi-Fi signals and cell phones increase chances of having brain cancer, especially in children, whose likelihood has “increased by 1 percent a year for the past 20 years” (Etelson). This statistic warns how a deadly disease has spread through a commodity as common as wireless service, and how vulnerable humans are as a species to the effect of our own inventions. Furthermore, Barry Rosenstein and Anne Sheehan, in their “Open Letter from JANA Partners and CalSTRS to Apple Inc,” stress that compared to students who spend less than one hour on electronic devices, teens who spend five or more hours on their devices are 51% more likely to get less than seven hours of sleep, compared to the recommended nine hours. As well as physical health, however, Internet “addiction” can negatively
Many kids have computers at home. Majority of them come home from school and just sit at the computer. Not because they have to study something, but because they are bored and they need some sort of entertainment. Children have shown to studies that they have a higher impact on getting obese or develop some sort of dieses. This is caused by the amount of computer usage within a year. Computers also have an effect on your typing. Bad grammar is sometimes also caused by writing in slang on computers. This can result to poor results in school or even a life time habit. There are many ways to prevent this, is giving them a time limit usage on the computer. Promote fun physical activity so kids are not always on the computer. Many kids are not aware of the long term affects of over usage of technology, so they should be taught. Many times when parents tell kids the disadvantages of technology they often listen to what they have to say.
They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought” and that could be true, since our brains are like malleable plastic and changes shape throughout our lives. We are most definitely going to surpass the changing of our brains and many of the causes are going to be related to technology, because it is something we see, have and use every single day. According to studies, technology has caused good and bad things to happen to us. The good ones: dreaming in colors (from watching TV), better vision (from watching images, such as video games), we are more creative and have more short term memory and the bad ones: phantom vibration (which is when we think our phones vibrate but they don’t), insomnia (from the light emitted from devices), lower attention span and weaker long-term memory. The key is in the amount of time we spend connected to our
Computers have caused people to the way they think there so addicted to it. Computers can cause arthritis in your hands. It also hurts because online dating has gone crazy. Now it is up to our parents to keep an eye on children so they won't be on the computer all the time.
Above all else, when a computer turns into the essential issue of an individual's life, they experience a conversion in behavior; they feel that they cannot live without a computer. The normal thing to see with youngsters who have been permitted to invest an excess of time on the computer, optically watching TV, or playing video games and when it is to stop, they have temper tantrums. But it is not only a matter of behavioral progressions when individuals can’t tear themselves far from the screen long enough to join in whatever possible action, it can take a toll on their comfort and health. Here are a couple of symptoms of abusing computers. One of the largest symptoms from computers is eyestrain. According to Mickey Meece, “Eyestrain, headaches, blurred vision, dry ...