Today, for the first time, I've heard about a disorder called digital dementia. It is like standard dementia that can come at an old age, but it is caused by smartphones.
It is not a secret why are children addicted to smartphones. Using a smartphone causes dopamine and endorphins secretion in the brain, just as using some drugs. There were tests on animals that would get brain stimulation as of "happiness hormones" when an animal will press a certain button. What was discovered is that an animal will press the button until it dies, forgetting to eat, drink or do anything else but press the button.
The same is happening to our children when using a smartphone. Researchers found out that if you don't give your kids to use a smartphone too much, they would wake at night and secretly use it. Information mess coming from smartphones is very dangerous. Today's children received and processed more information than the average adult in his/her whole life living in the 15th century.
Researchers from Harvard University found out almost 10 years ago that deep parts of the brain in average teen have atrophied, shrinking in size. This causes a permanent decrease in the cognitive capacities of the brain. For this reason, more and more children can't sit, write, read, calculate, and can't concentrate. This all causes the diminishing of learning capacities in the young generation.
Result: Whole humankind stopped cognitive ascend and is in cognitive descent. Making for the first time in human history fact that every new generation is more stupid compared with the previous. All thanks to advances in technology that made us addicts and slaves.
