General Health Disparity A Sidetrack from Attention
An innovative study can produce different results on several platforms, the NIH study on tracking brain and behavioral development covers a lot of factors on social skills, IQ, and even the production of a neurotransmitter known as dopamine. The continuous conduct of studies opens different scope to understand and further examine, apart from the general knowledge of too much screen time is harmful. This study has somehow established a new illustration on smartphones and other technologies to how it affects the brain, especially on young ones.
Teenagers today spend more than prescribed time on their phones each day, and in addition to the accumulated time they spent on watching tv, or playing video games. The provided effects from the study and previous relating ones settled on negative effects to health, from electromagnetic radiation to behavior that tests patience, lifestyle on being dependent to their social activities, and even learning that projects on grammar mistakes and or comprehension. Another study has showed that because of these changes, teenagers are reported to be diverted from unlikable exposures constant liquor consumption, sex, use of illegal drugs and or smoking addiction.
On the other side, the study seeks to provide explanation on how the social, and environmental factors may affect the brain and carried out to their living. The behavioral development to its mental health when the use of social media induces the feeling of pleasure. It has led to alcoholism and drug abuse, which seems social media was a leeway to redirect their attention but also views on possible things they can do, share thoughts, post pictures, scroll, press like and share until entering to a new system. Tracking brain development creates better understanding and application of the things they prefer for entertainment, interest on arts and crafts or sciences. The purposes can be associated with family affairs or personal problems, and reflect it to the social media platforms which works better on fulfilling or brings satisfaction to the young users.
This study can provide proper reference point on how normal brain develops, thus a finding to what goes wrong to a child’s brain that could result into an abnormality from the different factors cited. But also it can end in a conclusion that teenagers and children just find it easy on investing their time to social media for leisure, for educational as their form of entertainment. There is accurate report or estimation that can provide interesting answers, on how negative is this for the youth, or will the effects reviewed these days will be the same in the future.
Whether good or bad impact, the utilization of any unit shall be expanding on the benefiting side, and it depends on the manner of how we see and make use of it. The manipulation or over all control shall always be within the capability of a human being along with its intellectual presence to maintain a balance. The reality may be seen or heard in the screen and rather be verified from it nowadays, young people and adults should always put in mind the edge of physical perception to its environment that the influence must occur to his or her own awareness of existence.
CBS News. (2018, December 10). NIH study tracks effects of social media on adolescent brains. Retrieved August 13, 2020, from https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nih-study-tracks-effects-of-social-media-on-adolescent-brains/
