professor offered to read of california state university in philly to analyze how brains comprehend social networks. and he's hearing these how patients are optimized to confiscate users time and detention. in face to face almost daily interactions we get several dozen sofer awards per day but on social media we have the same thing on a much larger scale as opposed to getting a few tops on the shoulder a few nice words being said to us we have. andras sometimes thousands of friends that communicate with us and provide us which we ward such as likes such as commenting on our posts such as repose thing our opinions and so on and that makes us really feel good. thanks to brain imaging research around has even

identified the mechanism the central networks deploying to hijack on your arms as with most addictive behavior is the robot would say he's involved. there was hacking is it time to see reboot legion wasted in the corner of our brains it can show sensations of pleasure. it lights up when we eat when we make love and when we use drugs. our research showed that it fires up also when we are exposed to images of social media and certainly when we see likes on social media so he teaches our brain to want more feet and over time the system can become very sensitized so it responds almost automatically to any cues that relate to social media and by automatically i mean you cannot even control the behavior because it's too fast your brain just as you i want that you do that we thought every day opportunity to reflect and say to a safe a stop for

a 2nd. then for there are woodstock it's gateway is tapped by social networks to monopolize our attention. but the mechanics involved a movie still because the lights can pop up at any moment. for our brains and they often unpredictable random moments. and as professor skin i say to these famous pigeon experiment it's the best way to set off compulsive behavior. what it is demonstrated. if we expose p. just with fixed schedule for the ward by giving them food every 'd fixed number of times they pick let's say 5 times a day repeat their behavior or bother to not go crazy about it in contrast when you expose them to a viable schedule for wards now it is not fixed maybe after 5 packs they get over

the food maybe after 10 sometimes after 20 picks then the pages would go crazy they would seek their reward more often they would pick more and they would continue packing even after the reward is terminated. only these power of random rewards for behavior is a constant in the animal world. it works in rats in monkeys and even most and in humans the game industry has long prospered by targeting the psychological fun ability sexual networks are merely recycling the recipe in order to better capture our time and our attention. have we then unwittingly become the internet's pigeon. as the world become one gigantic skinner box where we wander about searching for small rewards scouted by the giants of the way. the

pigeon experiment manger all smiles but the underlying issue is serious. the digital industry strategies for capturing attention often stay in artwork. we pick up our cellphones 200 times a day on average. and for a video game as the phenomenon is even more impressive. for some gamers the prettiest bonus on drug addiction. an officially recognized pro. i'm in the medical field since june 28th teen. there when the president requested a covering of. the younger that a little bit going to follow. up on this is a collect call successful because. everybody who indulges in gaming from time to buy doesn't have this disorder in fact it's only

a minority of people who game who respect us for the strict grade give you for giving disorder and there is a need and demand for it meant from many regions the words. the w.h.o. stipulates that the diagnosis applies to play as whose lack of controlling gaming as home based social and family lives their schooling or professional lives for 12 months at least. the center is dedicated to this new type of addiction a popping up around europe. even if the reality in video game addiction remains a debatable subject in the scientific and medical wells the digital industry's techniques for keeping game is riveted to their screens are now being blamed in some places around the world. disparage games are often those that involve killing

a maximum of enemies popping up everywhere orange ones they're called 1st person shooter games and can be very violent paradoxically play date these action games actually improve certain brain scales. it's the unexpected discovery made in this the bar chain. one of the 1st to become interested in what goes on inside gamers brain is. it all started in a 2 thousands when a student at the lab a big video game play himself measured his only tension skills with a test that he just developed. it was task was programming an attention test on the computer. and he kept thinking there was a bug in his computer code because he was perfectly doing the task he didn't have

any lapse in attention he was 100 percent correct all the time which according to the literature should not have been possible. and then we work together and we discovered it was not a bug in his in this computer program it was really about in his brain because he was a video game player at the time. since then scientists are fairly well can find this unexpected discovery gamers who practice these phones person shooter games. got the highest test scores for attention. to the 1st thing to know is that we're going to measure your attention span for that we need you to look straight ahead so i'm going to ask you to put your chin in the small device. ok there we don't it is i'll give you instructions from this room but what you see on the screen is a certain number of new smileys and a certain number of yellow smileys the blue ones will become yellow by the end one

of them will have a question mark on it and i'll ask you to tell me if it was blue or yellow at the start of the test ok. most people can do this whether they are gamers or not so if there are 3 blue dots at the start they are relatively easy to track with for the job slightly harder with 5 we tend to lose a good number of non gamers and with 6 only diehard game is can pull it off some of his attention or task have been linked to improvement in everyday life such as for example being less likely to have accidents especially in elderly population greater attention means better ad bill at both focusing on the driving the road ahead but also detecting like you know the dog that may be coming by or the kid with a balloon that may be coming from the side. step is

a most interesting aspect is getting people in large initially gamers to play action video games or without action so when we do that and we train them for several days a week what we see is that those who played action games are able to move up from 3 darts to 4 dots. however those who haven't played action games stay in the skill range of 4 blue dots. it was quite inspiring to suddenly see something as mundane as playing 1st or 3rd person shooter games have a rather. expected effect positive expected the fact on core attentional function top down attention is resists ability to serve your volition pay. attention is something very cognitive very self driven and so that suddenly having a tool to and hence that aspect of attention seemed really interesting for

a number of therapeutic applications. as. a video game as treat. the apparently crazy idea has never been less given birth to a game developed in a west coast the bar chain in the usa. it was designed to treat attention disorder is. my main goals are to both respond to only the red aliens by collecting them which involves a button press and to ignore all the others so that's a selective attention decision. at 1st glance you might think it is a platform game but the list of functions to perform the complexity the pacing and the generation calibrated to push the brain to its limits and specifically to reinforce attention skills. are going to play for a long time. but the best there are people that are but i'm perri go to. the

target and. clinical study evaluation begins efficiency against a placebo the test carried out on $350.00 teenagers with attention deficit it's revealed significant improvements in the concentration capacity. as with any medicine the prescribed dose each must be respected if you can deliver the experience at the pace that the intervention requires and limited use to 30 minutes per day there are many macan isms where you can actually control. the intake like the diet of the use you can make sure that the me. character are getting tired after a certain number of minutes and then it will not be rewarding to play. for if american health officials approve it as an effective medical treatment either will

become the very 1st medical video game on the market. the dollar tree is already working on new digital therapies. virtual reality may soon become another treatment for memory disorders. while paradoxical from all apparent scenes video games in medicine testifying to the multiple uses of digital devices. neither intrinsically good nor bad it all depends on who uses them for how long and above all in watch way. according to experts at high doses screens do in the children's development so for the sake of caution no screens ever before age 3 and on to 3 accompanied if possible. research on teenagers is still underway but screens addictive power makes the most

vulnerable among teens more from a child they also make existing problems worse. given the already exorbitant place that screens now hold in our lives moderation is advisable the spread of 500 networks is short if you will believe me at the for all things digital. this week in the bundesliga and from here on out downs if by all means champion. definitely regulated goodbye to the 1st lady's place between 1st place high voltage excitement is

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