Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

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Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/techn ... brain.html

How many of you end up flipping through email, web pages, facebook, etc. while supposed to be doing work for hours? Or playing games while supposed to be spending time with your significant other...
“The technology is rewiring our brains,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists. She and other researchers compare the lure of digital stimulation less to that of drugs and alcohol than to food and sex, which are essential but counterproductive in excess.
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