The internet is making people less intelligent
A internet está tornando as pessoas menos inteligentes
DOI:10.34117/bjdv4n7-001
Recebimento dos originais: 10/11/2018 Aceitação para publicação: 13/12/2018
Fabiano de Abreu Rodrigues
PhD and Master in Health Psychology from Université Libre des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris PhD and Master in Health Sciences with emphasis in Psychology and Neuroscience from Emil
Brunner World University
Address: Costinha Street, Aveiro, Portugal E-mail: deabreu.fabiano@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this scientific article that uses a bibliographic method is to demonstrate that the internet is a world open to facilitate, because with it we stop using our brain as we should or could. Today's children see the greatest difficulty in tasks as mundane as reading or research. They are addicted to the online world that guarantees a high dose of dopamine in a single click. Achievements are easy and achievable in almost any application, be it a like on a social network or a game goal. This type of routine creates a vicious cycle, the need for dopamine generates more anxiety and this leads to tiredness due to cortisol and other released hormones that result in fatigue. We store with emotion and there are no more emotions for storage that make a difference. Emotions are conditioned to virtual realities. The cycle of achievements puts us in an anxiety that impairs attention and in the absence of focus there is no memorization and, without memorization, there is no acquisition of knowledge, we return to a vicious cycle, and to break this new paradigm, that this article is made necessary to discuss the topic.
Keywords: easy internet, dopamine, vicious cycle, anxiety. RESUMO
O objetivo deste artigo científico que usa um método bibliográfico é demonstrar que a Internet é um mundo aberto para facilitar, porque com ela deixamos de usar nosso cérebro como deveríamos ou poderíamos. As crianças de hoje vêem a maior dificuldade em tarefas tão mundanas como a leitura ou a pesquisa. Elas são viciadas no mundo on-line que garante uma alta dose de dopamina em um único clique. As conquistas são fáceis e realizáveis em quase todas as aplicações, seja como em uma rede social ou um objetivo de jogo. Este tipo de rotina cria um ciclo vicioso, a necessidade de dopamina gera mais ansiedade e isto leva ao cansaço devido ao cortisol e outros hormônios liberados que resultam em fadiga. Armazenamos com emoção e não há mais emoções para o armazenamento que fazem a diferença. As emoções são condicionadas às realidades virtuais. O ciclo de realizações nos coloca em uma ansiedade que prejudica a atenção e na ausência de foco não há memorização e, sem memorização, não há aquisição de conhecimento, voltamos a um ciclo vicioso, e para quebrar este novo paradigma, que este artigo se faz necessário para discutir o tema.
1 INTRODUCTION
The most recent studies on the human brain indicate that the evolutionary path has stagnated. There is, for the first time, a non-reach of the generation that proceeds. Currently, humanity lives within a deep sedentary lifestyle not only physically, but also by mental idleness.
There is an era of technological dependence, which begins earlier and earlier and which will bring us, moreover, already brought us an increase in mental illness.
We are creating a society distorted by laziness, lack of memory and hyperactivity, where our high capacities are being reduced to the background. Society readily yields to machine facilitation and becomes rusty. Possessing intelligence is a matter of nothing but knowing how to use it and putting our cognition aside.
There comes an immediate society, which has no notion of time or effort, that lives the now and focuses too much on the image. A society of opinion and not of being, of facade, where people cloud their own notion of reality.
Scientific researches points to how young people are brought to depression and anxiety comprehensively. They don't know how to deal with frustration or conflict. They are hostages of technology and come to its extent. The internet has become a kind of external brain, quickly accessible. The information promptly, leaves us not interested in the search, research, study and ultimately questioning. It's a society that doesn't ask. Without curiosity there is no advance.
2 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
2.1 DEPENDENCE, LAZINESS AND EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTIONS
The Internet has made us slacker. The human no longer need to calculate on paper, they have digital calculator, do not need to write down their to-do, they have agenda, no longer need to read the topic and store it in memory, they have it in Google for when you want to find it. This last option, makes the brain even more lazy.
According to Daniel Barros (2016), psychiatrist at the Center for Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of São Paulo (USP), our brain always seeks an easier path, already covered:
Decision-making can even be an act of deep suffering. To protect itself, the brain does not always opt for creativity when it seeks solutions: it prefers to make the connections it already knows than to face surprise with the results. And even when we choose new paths, we have an expectation built from what we know. This serves both for fantasy, memory, imagination and even for the decision-making process; (BARROS, 2016, s.p.)
Linking the energy-saving factor of the brain to fatigue, the latter very incident due to the excessive release of dopamine, we are presented with a chronic laziness, a way of thinking about autopilot that finds no will or effort to feed the brain. There is no awareness that seeking and finding solutions strengthens us and is essential for a healthy and active brain. The excess of fractional
information and without content on the Internet also motivate this brain laziness.
Our brain, like other organs of the human body, has learned from the evolution of man. Izquierdo (1989) explains that the brain holds in the vast majority what he believes to be valuable for the survival of being:
Memories acquired in a state of alertness and with a certain emotional or affective load are better remembered than memories of unexpressive or acquired facts in a state of drowsiness. The alert, affective and emotional states are accompanied by the release of peripheral hormones and central neurotransmitters. Several of these substances affect memory. Numerous experiments with drugs that release, mimic or block their action have shown that they do not act during the acquisition, but in the immediately subsequent period, affecting consolidation (McGAUGH, 1988; IZQUIERDO et al., 1988a; IZQUIERDO and PEREIRA, 1989;
IZQUIERDO, 1989). The treatments are effective when applied after the acquisition (in the period called post-training). (IZQUIERDO, 1989, p.02)
And as to keep or not certain memory, Izquierdo (1989) says more. He states that:
The mechanisms that select the information that will eventually be stored include the hippocampus and amygdala. The bilateral lesion of these two temporal lobe structures does not cause the loss of preexisting memories (which obviously indicates that memories are not stored in them); but prevents the acquisition of new memories (SCHÜTZ and IZQUIERDO, 1979, p. 97-105; MISHKIN et al., 1984, p. 65-77; MARKOWITSCH and PRITZEL, 1985, p. 189-287). The hippocampus intervenes in the recognition of a given stimulus, stimulus configuration, environment or situation, whether they are new or not, and, therefore, whether or not they deserve to be memorized (GRAY, 1982). It is evident that, for this, the hippocampus must be able to: a) distinguish stimulus, combinations of stimulus and environments; b) compare them with pre-existing memories stored in the brain (not, as we saw, in the hippocampus itself); c) to issue information regarding the novelty or not of the situation or the environment to other structures (their projection sites). In fact, we only recognize that we "learn something" when it comes to something new; not of something we already knew. The amygdala participates in the selection processes as a consequence of its modulating function of consolidation (Mc- GAUGH, 1988, p. 33-64) (IZQUIERDO, 1989, p.04)
And in the world of the Internet, most of the time the easier access to content, does not present news. To confirm this statement Soares and Vilhena (2015) cite researches conducted at the University of Wartelloo, which shows that people who exercise playful activities, have better cognitive performance and less dependence on smartphones.
We ask people to indicate how much time they spend using their smartphone to look for information. We also asked about how much time is spent using phones for entertainment and media purposes," says Gordon Pennycook, after this stage, also examined different cognitive abilities of the participants, such as intuitive and analytical ability and verbal and mathematical skills. For this, the 660 volunteers performed a series of playful exercises, such as solving logical problems, for example. After the tests, the researchers noted that participants who had "sharper" cognitive abilities and greater availability to think analytically spent less time using the search function of smartphones. (SOARES, VILHENA, 2015, s.p)
The internet is an opened world to facilitation, and the more plugged into the digital world, the more we stop using our brain as we should or could. The human found in the machine an external complement as if our brain were 5400 RPM HD and computer an external SSD.
It turns out that this "low information" means that we don't form large synapses, we don't use the brain in all its capacity for the moment, and then the dendrites can be affected, or say, shrunken.
Sant'ana (S.D) recalls that:
The brain brings together a set of structures that determine the interaction of each individual with the world in which they live. Its organization differs throughout development, growth and aging and reflects the experiences experienced by each one. Ferrari, Toyoda and Faleiros (2001) point out that the relationships between environmental events and the repertoire of behavioral responses are a product of the phylogenetic, ontogenetic and cultural history of each individual and result in changes in the shape, size and functions of the nervous system. Therefore, it is an adaptable structure, which can undergo changes and transformations and therefore receives the adjective "plastic". This term aims to extol its high capacity for adaptation and response to stimulus, and, clash of old ideas that the brain would be immutable. (SANT'ANA, s.d., p. 01)
And it is in this plasticity of the brain, that the neuron has an essential function, as Sant'ana (S.D.) explains:
Neurons are very specialized cells and are formed early in embryonic life. Approximately by the end of the first trimester of embryonic life the embryo already has about 80% of the neurons it will have during its entire life. In this phase they have a different form than that found throughout development and adulthood, being still little branched and smaller. From then on, during development, they undergo growth and ramifications, in a process called neural maturation, which occurs due to a form of plasticity. In adults, most neurons lose the ability to divide and form new cells, but in a few brain regions this property, called neurogenesis, remains (Lent, 2008; Snyder et al, 2011). (SANT'ANA, s.d., p. 02)
But, neurons alone are not able to perform functions, they depend of sets called neuronal circuits. And according to Sant'ana (s.d.)
Dias (2010) presents the term cognitive reserve as being the "neuronal economies" formed by circuits in redundancies and neurons with functions divided with others, in adults. It goes on to state that the main determining factor for the formation of this reserve and survival of a greater number of neurons seems to be the level of intellectual development. It concludes by stating that the cognitive reserve is formed from the continuous performance of intellectually challenging tasks and that it can be important in the rehabilitation process in cases of injuries such as strokes. (SANT'ANA, s.d., p. 03)
When the synapses are at their peak, our memorization capacity increases as well as the dendrites improving our cognition. On the other hand, the plasticity that ceases to be performed with the facilitation of internet content can result in early dementias – such as Alzheimer's disease, and the lack of reinforcement of synapses results in greater difficulty in memorization. In short: if we don't use our brain, it tends to stop working the way it could.
Pinheiro and Madel (apud GOLDBERB, 2002) state that:
If cognitive exercise improves and improves the brain itself, then it is important to plan a systematic program, ensuring that all important parts of the brain, or at least most of them, are involved. To get to good physical shape it is important to exercise various muscle groups in a balanced way. Balance is achieved through training sequences that cover carefully selected and diverse exercises. Contemporary knowledge of the brain makes it possible to plan a 'cognitive training sequence' that will systematically train various parts of the brain. If undirected (actually, casual) mental exercise has a proven protective effect against dementia, then a scientifically planned and directed cognitive exercise regimen should bring even more benefits. (PINE. MADEL, 2009, p. 03 apud GOLDBERG, 2002, p. 252)
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, due to excessive use of electronic equipment, which in turn interferes the brain as the work of neurons in synapses,
About ADHD Mello- Junior et al (2010) states that:
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represents, along with dyslexia, the main cause of school failure and is present in 7% of children in Brazil. Since the 1980s, ADHD has been interpreted as a neuropsychiatric disease that arises in childhood and persists into adulthood. It is currently described by international medical authorities as a serious public health problem. (MELLO- JUNIOR et al, 2010, p. 01)
Christakis et al (2004) say that in:
A study of 1,278 1-year-old and 1,345 3-year-old children found that 10% of them had attention problems at age 7. The number of hours that children watched TV in the first ages (mean of 2.2 and 3.6 hours, respectively) was positively correlated with attention problems at 7 years of age. "An increase in a standard deviation in the number of hours of tv watched at 1 year of age was associated with a 28% increase in the probability of attention problems at age 7. This result is robust and stable over time – an effect of similar magnitude was achieved for the number of TV hours watched at age 3." They say: "The fact that children watch television too early is associated with attention problems at age 7. Efforts to limit the time of watching TV in early childhood can be warranted and additional research is needed." The authors also claim that parents and people who take care of children can reduce a child's chances of developing Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) if they limit the time of watching television in young children. (CHRISTAKIS et al, 2004, s.p.)
Today's children see the greatest of difficulties in tasks as banal as reading or research. They are addicted to the online world that guarantees them high dose of dopamine almost instantly. Achievements are easy and achievable in almost every app, whether it's a social network like or a game goal.
For Lustig (2018):
Because the system that releases the neurotransmitter is sensitive to clues that something nice is about to happen, it only takes a notification to stay alert. This process is training our brain, based on a good dose of stress, to expect notifications within this interruption associated with the 'dopamine loop' has negative effects, as it releases injections of cortisol (the stress hormone) when one activity is interrupted and dopamine, when another is initiated. (Lustig, 2018, s.p.)
According to psychologist Janaína Brizante (2018), director of the neuroscience laboratory of the company Nielsen: "every time we connect our cell phone and stay in it, we are activating our neurotransmitters in main dopamine, to feel in the state of well-being". (BRIZANTE, 2018, s.p.)
2.2 CONCENTRATION DISTURBANCES
This type of routine creates a vicious cycle, the need for dopamine generates more anxiety and this leads to tiredness due to cortisol and other released hormones that result in fatigue. That is why there was an increase in cases of ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).
ourselves. These attitudes are cultivated and have become cultural, that is, all attitudes, behaviors, are conditioned resulting in this "conditioned brain atrophy" that becomes a cycle harmful to evolution. It is in this context that one of the biggest behavioral problems of the moment is reached: the abstract reason.
As a limit, people are creating reason in their own reason and with the altered nervous system do not bother to evaluate situations as a whole. Everything is related to this new culture of "I have to love myself", in a pathological narcissism, linked to the easy achievements believing that the level is higher than it really is, placing itself as owners of reason. There is more defeats and difficulties to a better deserving of the conquest.
The concentration is decreasing, the focuses are in so many directions that they do not reach any in concrete and fatigue makes it more difficult to choose. There is many, many information all the time, but all fractional, without plot, without definition, are just mere information too uninteresting to be stored since the emotion for storage is more conditioned to the mere easy and ridiculous achievements of the internet. It's the ease of exchanging a lower energy expenditure so that more information and all that fits without content.
We condition the brain to have a lot of information without internal storage. There are no engram formations in them, they format a defragmented position of excesses without add-ons. We adapt the brain to a culture that will result in the dependence of machines. It is an intellectual decline that began in the discovery of television.
According to a study conducted by Microsoft and published on Time magazine, people lose concentration after only eight seconds, on average – less time than the nine seconds that a redfish (Carassius auratus) needs to be distracted. In 2000, the average attention time was 12 seconds, and the decrease of this time was a possible sign of the effects of the internet on the brain. The study showed differences between generations. As for the use of smartphones,77% of respondents between 18 and 24 years old said that when nothing is occupying their attention, the first thing they do is pick up the phone. For those over 65, the percentage is only 10%. (FREY , 2016, s.p)
There are also natural factors in the production of neurotransmitters, affected when we discharge serotonin with light from the apparatus at a time when melatonin should prepare us for sleep.
Jansen (2007) reveals in his book Time and Sleep in Night Medicine, which:
Sleep is the stage in which mechanisms and systems are switched off or attenuated with a view to preventing exhaustion. Today it is known that it is also the phase in which recovery and compensation processes of energy or biochemical defects arising in the period of activity are performed. Thus, sleep should be understood as vegetative alternation with the awake state. As a result, both phases play important roles in the expression and survival of organisms. In the awake state, the organism feeds and performs its relationship functions, while sleep provides repair mechanisms of defects arising from physical and chemical activity of the other period. The alternation of the two phases, it is then clear, is the guarantee of persistence of life and its expression. (JANSEN, 2007, p.25)
As for the waking state and sleep, Jansen (2007) says that:
The identification of neurotransmitters and the biochemical mechanism of its production was a very important progress because it showed that there were different groups of cells and modulating systems, some of which favor wakefulness and others of sleep. As the substances are released at the same levels of effector cells, sleep or wakefulness will predominate depending on which is the predominant neurotransmitter at that time. Thus, the concept of gradation of alert ness arises (wakefulness, exacerbated alertness, drowsiness, slightly asleep, superficial sleep and deep sleep), and this revealing fact is that the system is not always all-or- nothing, always translating the expression of which neurotransmitter microclimate predominates at that moment and at what intensity. So, the concept is of modulating the excitability of neurons, translating into the control of the state of consciousness, the degree of functioning of multiple organic functions and behavioral activity. Today, there is a very precise mapping of all the connections of the reticular formation and the various nuclei of the hypothalamus, thalamus and brain stem with the various areas of the cortex and their respective neurotransmitters (which are norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine, histamine, adrenaline, dopamine, glycine, glutamate, gamma-aminobutyric acid - Gaba - and adenosine). (JANSEN, 2007, p.26)
And if the individual stays on the Internet, hours on end, this profusion of neurotransmitters is deregulated. And such a change affects the physical and the psychological.
And if we don't sleep, we can't make our brain work the way we can. Jansen (2007) explains the need for sleep.
Although we can be, in extreme situations, days without eating, this fact does not occur with sleep, and it is not possible to maintain the state of wakefulness after two or three days of sleep deprivation. Thus, it is a fundamental biological function, involving three basic processes: 1) homeostatic, determined by the previous amount of sleep and wakefulness, from which the imperative need to sleep after prolonged wakes is characteristic for the body to compose itself with sleep; 2) circadian, repeated sleep and wakefulness in the 24 hours; 3) ultra-circadian, evident in the sleep organization itself, involving the two different states of sleep that occur at intervals of approximately 90 minutes, non-REM sleep and REM, which have different proportions according to the age group focused; thus, in the first year of life, 50% of sleep is REM, falling to 20% at three years and thus maintaining throughout life. (JANSEN, 2007, p.31, 32)
If it were not enough to change the restorative sleep of the night, for the day, it is worth remembering that only not sleeping properly, leads to fatigue, and consequently to sedentary lifestyle.
A dysfunction in a neurotransmitter affects others with other functions or similar functions, and our behavior and result of it is conditioned by this disorder bringing us deficit and diseases. Sedentary lifestyle is more than one factor and this will harm not only cognition, but also the physical.
American and Australian scientists published this month the result of research showing that sedentary lifestyle changes the functioning of the brain. They studied two groups of rats for three months. In one group, the rats stood in a cage with a running wheel, and exercised when they wanted to. In the other group, rats did not do any type of activity, remaining sedentary. By the end of the 3 months, the researchers analyzed the brains of the rats and saw differences between the two groups: in sedentary ones , the neurons (central nervous system cells) of a region that controls blood pressure had changed in such a way that they could be inducing increased pressure and contributing to the development of heart diseases. (CASTANHARO, 2014, s.p)
2.3 BRAIN WITH WEAK SYNAPSES, ABSENCE OF EMOTION THAT THINKS THAT KNOWS MORE THAN REALLY KNOWS
Our brain tends to store new emotions by associating them with what we already know. In 21st century, emotions are conditioned to virtual realities.
The world is on the digital screen where many people pass with their eyes fixed most of the day. Little is observed the nature, for example, and this fixation results on failures. Staying long on the computer may be common today, but it is not natural of the human being. Every time we cheat what's in our genetic code, we make a pending. If our DNA were to draw a line for survival, this line would condition this or that behavior. And by not complying, we create such pending issues.
Authors such as Goldberg (1996) study how Internet Addiction Disorder can affect the person, decreasing his/her professional, academic, social, economic or financial, psychological and physiological capacity. This disorder can also be called Pathological Use of the Internet, a term coined by researcher Young (2011) that highlights the:
• Cyber-sexual Addiction – addiction to using adult chat rooms or cyberporn.
• Cyber Relationship Addiction – online friendships, made in chat rooms or newgroups that replace the real life of family and friends.
• Compulsions for network games - compulsive use of online games, reliance on online auctions, and obsessive online commerce.
• Information Overload - compulsive browsing through the web network or search database. • Computer Addiction - obsessive use of computer, games or computer programming.
In this sense, Azevedo (2014) points out that:
Studies developed by Young (2011) show that some variables related to low self-esteem, insecurity, shyness, lack of proactivity are factors that contribute to overuse. The dependence on excessive use of the Internet, according to the new surveys, is characterized as an inability that the subject has to repress and control impulses to use the Internet, causing discomfort and feeling of guilt. In this context, the research on which this article was based presented as justification the finding that, currently, new technologies produce a strong impact on life, whether private or public, as an integrating instrument within social conjecture, thus, causing the excessive use of the Internet and digital social networks, evidencing them as eliciting elements of psychic dependence. (AZEVEDO, 2014, p.150)
The cycle of easy achievements puts us in an anxiety that impairs attention and in the lack of focus there is no memorization. A study in the past has even said that the computer helps to increase IQ, logic, but logic without cognition does not determine the plenitude of intelligence. The logic has variants and we define the logic in an IQ test is little, because there are logics beyond that determined in the test.
use of the internet, thinks he knows everything. Lopes (2017) recalls that:
British philosopher and mathematician Bertand Russell, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, said that the biggest problem in the modern world is that prepared and capable people are always full of doubts, while the uninformed and incapable are always full of certainties. Similar annoyance felt the writer Umberto Eco, who did not hide irritation with the increasingly careless use of one of humanity's great advances, the internet. With fine humor, he said that before social networks, the "village fools"' were entitled to the word "in a bar and after a glass of wine, without harming the collective". And he concluded that "the drama of the internet is that it can turn any fool in the village into the bearer of a supposed planetary truth." (LOPES, 2017, p. 01)
The phenomenon that bothered Bertrand Russell and Umberto Eco so much was studied by American psychologists Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell University. They described the Dunning-Kruger effect, according to which individuals who have little knowledge of a subject think they know more than others better prepared. On this non-existent superiority, acquired on the Internet, Lopes (2017) says that:
Scientists have concluded that ignorance often generates confidence more often than knowledge, giving disqualified people the feeling of an "illusory superiority." Thus, individuals with preconceived ideas, intuitions, biases and feelings build distorted versions of reality and cling to the illusion that they hold reliable knowledge. Scholars of this "illusory superiority" analyze that the more ignorant someone is in a subject, the less qualified they will be to evaluate the ability of anyone working on the same subject, including their own ability. When someone uses a social network to disseminate nonsense and no one opposes it, that individual assumes himself an expert. This results in an artificially inflated perception of their own abilities, often tempered by the ego. The same effect will cause equally incompetent people to congratulate themselves and support themselves, as they cannot detect their shortcomings. (LOPES, 2017, p. 01)
Lopes (2017) also says that an aggravating factor is that disasters and negativism exert enormous attraction on modern society. This condition creates a fertile environment for "illusory superiority", which circulates in an intense way fallacies and half-truths, expanding the cult of pessimism and the glorification of those who worship to beat the drums of the apocalypse.
Another aggravating factor is that information is being produced and disseminated at stunning and devalued speed and made obsolete with equal speed. It is increasingly difficult to keep up to date on topics such as politics, health, safety, technology, etc. And although information is readily available in multiple vehicles and media, it is increasingly difficult to assess when someone is well informed. The danger is that the torrents of information that come to us daily make us less informed, uninformed or, even worse, less knowledgeable than we do not know. (LOPES, 2017, p. 02)
There is no emotion in the storage of knowledge if we have emotions fractionated in small and fast events, for practicality, in the computer via the Internet.
So our brain gets lazy, because we always seek the saving energy, it is in our instinct, this in a period that we needed to spend less energy to have strength and hunt, in addition to protecting ourselves from the cold. Only today we are using these same energy-saving mechanisms for other
tasks.
2.4 LOW IQS LONG AGO!
Our young people live connected all the time on the internet and some studies have dubiously pointed out that our adolescents and children are smarter than their parents, analyses and studies conducted by Effect Flynn, surveyed since 1970 have shown something different, Norwegian researchers conducted tests which were published in the scientific journal of the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences corresponding to the years 1971 to 2009.
About 730,000 test results were studied, and the conclusion was that each decade the results came on average three points higher, up to those born in 1975. As of this year, a steady decrease in yield was observed in the tests. By analyzing sibling results, the researchers found differences in intelligence between members of the same family group, suggesting that it is not the genes that are causing this fall in IQ levels. "It's not that less intelligent people are producing more offspring than smarter people. It's something related to the environment, because we're seeing the same differences within families.” (Blume, Juliana, 2018, s.p).
We understand from this test that the frequency of IQs do not have a direct relationship with the genes of the ancestors, but within the environment that the person is in.
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IQ score coverage in all families and IQ data missing from a sample of two siblings. A shows data coverage for all boys present in Norway on their 18th birthday(n = 817,611). B shows non-overlap rates for younger siblings in the sample of two siblings; for readability, the figure portrays the rates only for three 5-y intervals(n = 65,363. (Bratsbarg, Bernt apud Rogeberg, Ole, 2018, s.p).
intelligence had been growing, but after the 1970s there was a slowdown, that is, a reversal of this picture, many theorists believed that this decline on the IQs was due to the genetics of the parents, but with the tests carried out by James Flynn, it was possible to verify that genetics has little to do with this decay and rather the environment that the person in it inserts.
"once the ceiling of the Flynn effect has been hit." The review also suggests that this direct genetic effect can be amplified by a social multiplier. (Bratsbarg, Bernt apud Rogeberg, Ole, 2018, s.p).
Previous studies have indicated that IQ was determined through the firstborn, those born first would have a more advanced IQ than their other siblings, but these studies were reversed in an environmental way that influences the behavior of the person in the environment in which he/she is part.
An article conducted in March 2018 by the research site Frontiers Psychiatry pointed out that previous studies demonstrated the altered volume of gray matter (GMV) in individuals with Internet gambling disorder (IGD), but the relationship between the tendency to IGD and GMV throughout the brain is still unclear in adolescents. In the present study, high-resolution anatomical images were performed in 67 male adolescents who played online; and Young's Internet dependency test (IAT) was performed to test the tendency to IGD. The FMRIB Software Library (FSL) was used to calculate voxel-based correlations between GMV and IAT score after control for age and years of study. The GMVs of the bilateral post-central gyration (postCG), the bilateral precentral gyre (preCG), the right precuneus, the left posterior midcingulate cortex (pMCC), the left inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and the right middle frontal gyre (FgM) were negatively correlated with the IAT score. The correlation still existed between the IAT score and the GMVs of the bilateral postCG, the left pre-CG, the left pMCC and the right MFG after controlling the total online playing time.
The article continues, when participants were divided into two groups according to the IAT score, the GMVs of these brain regions related to The IAT were lower in subgroup of IAT score (IAT score >50) than in the subgroup of low IAT score (IAT score ≤50). Our results suggested that GMVs of the brain regions involved in the sensory process and cognitive control were associated with the tendency of IGD. These findings may lead to new goals for the prevention and treatment of IGD.
Brain state analyses are correlated with the environment that the person lives in, as already pointed out in this article, in a study conducted by Kühn (2018) revealed that the GMV of the brain regions within the frontstriatal network correlated with the excessive use of the Internet evaluated by the IAT score. In addition, previous studies have also shown that gmv changes were related to the severity of online gambling addiction in IGD subjects.
Our brain is significantly affected and altered, tests performed by Kühn were based on subjects, questionnaires, structural magnetic Resonance, Voxel-based morphometry analysis (VBM),
static analysis.
The results of cerebral interference were recorded according to Frontiers Psychiatry (2018) the participants presented a median score of 46 in the IAT, which was used to evaluate the tendency of IGD. The subjects spent an average of 5.5 hours/day playing online games and lasted an average of 56 months.
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From these studies it has been proven how our brain works, leading people to technological addictions, causing neuronal dysfunctions.
Finally, the scientific article of Frontiers (2018) concludes that, this study, the structural correlation with the IGD trend was investigated in a group of players of adolescent online games. It was found that the GMV of the brain regions related to the sensory process and cognitive control were associated with the IAT score. The lower GMV of the regions related to the motor sensor process and
cognitive control may attribute to the high tendency of IGD, which can lead to new targets for prevention and treatment of IGD in adolescents.
3 FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
In times of new technologies, we are increasingly becoming dependent on the Internet, social networks, likes, lots of information and little memorization, triggering laziness, lack of interest and deep sedentary lifestyle. We are modifying our brain behavior, releasing more dopamine by activating the cortisol hormone and leading us to stress, we are also causing serotonin to supra melatonin with the lights of electronic devices at night, where in the wake of the next day, we wake up tired and lead a fatigued life.
This is the new sedentary lifestyle of the 21st century, unwilling to work on brain plasticity, take a book to read, practice physical exercises, we have just created a new mental culture within our reality.
Today we are sick people and we create our children also sick, with a deep depression, stress that seems endless, a void that accompanies us all the time, and as a "solution" we seek the immediacy that the internet provides, as mentioned above in the article, the state of well-being through the lights, quick responses, which the internet brings, releasing more and more neurotransmitters of pleasure and in the same proportion we are creating a harmful dysfunction in our brain and getting stored in our genetic code and transfer our proles.
We talk all the time that our children were born intelligent, because of the current time they are in, but it is important to remember that children may even be born with high intelligence, but are accustomed and driven to live with inferior cognition, because it is through the synaptic stimulus that they can develop a rationality of the environment that they live.
Parents have become accustomed to handing over their smartphones or connecting the televisions to their children to quiet them while performing other tasks, we understand that this lack of time does not exist and rather was created to take care of the multitasking that was conditioned to the brain to do, without creating engrams to work with their memory, in this space we develop anxiety and the lack of patience affects families making them unstructured and not helping their children develop a healthy and natural brain.
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