{"id":178,"date":"2024-12-09T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/is-doom-scrolling-really-rotting-our-brains-the-evidence-is-getting-harder-to-ignore-sian-boyle-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T06:37:17","slug":"is-doom-scrolling-really-rotting-our-brains-the-evidence-is-getting-harder-to-ignore-sian-boyle-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/09\/is-doom-scrolling-really-rotting-our-brains-the-evidence-is-getting-harder-to-ignore-sian-boyle-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore | Si\u00e2n Boyle | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In recent years, an abundance of academic research from institutions including Harvard medical school, the University of Oxford and King\u2019s College London found evidence that the internet is shrinking our grey matter, shortening attention spans, weakening memory and distorting our cognitive processes. The areas of the brain found to be affected included \u201cattentional capacities, as the constantly evolving stream of online information encourages our divided attention across multiple media sources\u201d, \u201cmemory processes\u201d and \u201csocial cognition\u201d.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/09\/brain-rot-word-of-the-year-reality-internet-cognitive-function\">www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/09\/brain-rot-word-of-the-year-reality-internet-cognitive-function<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, an abundance of academic research from institutions including Harvard medical school, the University of Oxford and King\u2019s College London found evidence that the internet is shrinking our grey matter, shortening attention spans, weakening memory and distorting our cognitive processes. The areas of the brain found to be affected included \u201cattentional capacities, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}