Net Searching and Texting Makes The Brain More Adept At Snap Decisions

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Net Searching and Texting Makes The Brain More Adept At [uk.reuters.com]Snap Decisions

The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.

Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in brain function, has found through studies that Internet searching and text messaging has made brains more adept at filtering information and making snap decisions.

But while technology can accelerate learning and boost creativity it can have drawbacks as it can create Internet addicts whose only friends are virtual and has sparked a dramatic rise in Attention Deficit Disorder diagnoses.

[Shaddows]

"...and has sparked a dramatic rise in Attention Deficit Disorder diagnoses"

How is this effect discerned from the cause?

And has it sparked a rise in ADD, or just the diagnosis thereof?

[grandpa]

a dramatic rise in Attention Deficit Disorder diagnoses

Seriously, would this be a rise in A.D.D., or a rise in the ability to multitask and make snap decisions? When I think about this, admittedly for a mere few seconds, it seems like a fine line difference between the two, and perhaps a misdiagnosis.

Speaking from experience in dealing with someone who is correctly diagnosed as A.D.D., that individual clearly has not seen any benefit from internet searching or text messaging.

can create Internet addicts

And here is where I fear a growing anti-social culture, a breakdown of the social fabric. Was just this morning I was listening to someone talk about a marriage breakup because he was thoroughly addicted to online pron.