{"id":2440,"date":"2025-04-16T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/smartphone-addicts-have-healthier-brains\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:06:14","slug":"smartphone-addicts-have-healthier-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/smartphone-addicts-have-healthier-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone addicts have healthier brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-16 14:06:14<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Using your phone regularly keeps the brain healthy.<BR><br \/>\nIt is regularly suggested that being glued to the devices is harmful to brain health but neuroscientists in the US have found that people over 50 who spend a lot of time on the gadgets had lower rates of cognitive decline.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Michael Scullin, an expert at Baylor University, said: &#8220;You can flip on the news on just about any day and you&#8217;ll see people talking about how technologies are harming us.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;People often use the terms &#8216;brain drain&#8217; and &#8216;brain rot&#8217;, and now digital dementia is an emerging phrase.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;As researchers, we wanted to know if this was true.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe boffin explained that the difficulties older adults face in getting to grips with modern technology are cognitively beneficial for them.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Scullin said: &#8220;One of the first things that middle-age and older adults were saying is that, &#8216;I&#8217;m so frustrated by this computer. This is hard to learn.&#8217;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s actually a reflection of the cognitive challenge, which may be beneficial for the brain even if it doesn&#8217;t feel great in the moment.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-16 14:06:14 Using your phone regularly keeps the brain healthy. It is regularly suggested that being glued to the devices is harmful to brain health but neuroscientists in the US&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}