Why Are Computers Bad For The Brain

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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. …show more content…

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

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