The smartphone epidemic with Manfred Spitzer

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The world is f* in so many ways but the digitalisation of schools and the proliferation of smart phone use and digital media in kids and teenage douches ain’t helping a brother out. The idea that every 6 year old kid should have access to computer at school in order to level out social gaps is as naive as it is stupid. Science & Cocktails proudly presents the neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer, who has reviewed hundreds of studies on the impact of digital media on learning and education. What he has found is scary.
Smartphone use interferes with normal neurobiological, psychosocial, and physical development and thereby produces detrimental effects on health and educational attainment, especially in children and adolescents. Known and well documented health risks include myopia, weight gain and obesity, musculoskeletal disorders, sleeplessness, hypertension, type-II diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, anxiety, depression (including suicide), irritability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addiction (to smartphones and to alcohol and nicotine), and high risk behaviours regarding traffic (accidents) and sex (sexually transmitted diseases). Because smartphones interfere with attention and learning, they cause a decrease in educational attainment, which is the most significant protective factor when it come to the development of dementia in old age.
Therefore, smartphones will contribute to the burden of increased prevalence of dementia in the coming decades. Taken together, it appears highly irresponsible to take the effects of current smartphone overuse lightly. Manfred Spitzer, neuroscientist, psychiatrist and psychologist will discuss studies where smart phone use in children and adolescents have been conducted. Indeed, the results aren’t funny boy.

[@danthegeoman]

This explains the decline in my students over the last 10 years. It also explains the incredible decline I've seen of practically every measure of performance in my students from last year compared to this year. Wild.

[@diamondluv1080]

Social media, Smartphones , the internet, etc has fcked up this world. We’d be better off without them. Period. And this is coming from someone who has used a smartphone since I was 13.

[@ragergamer2362]

Wall good luck convincing the rest of the world , cause they do not give a shit or

[@katrinf.792]

Thanks thats so true! We should fight it and throw those damn things against a wall QUICK

[@wheatley7620]

@@katrinf.792 first off that would be kind of stupid second we would be paying tons of cash and we would self destruct the human economy

[@katinkavonwelten]

@@wheatley7620 the human economy is the most destructive thing out there. So I don't at all think it'd be stupid if we'd stop economic growth and go back in time 20 years. Period.

[@kenanaojacob2854]

You know we discover people like him through social media right? The internet is very well balanced tons of good stuff, tons of bad stuff. Choose your medicine.

[@perihelion7445]

I'll be severly limiting Smartphone use after this and sticking to my old Commodore Amiga from time to time for fun 👍

[@funkdrunk]

I will limit myself to jogging. That's the healthiest way to send messages at distances (as long as you are patient to wait)

[@perihelion7445]

@@funkdrunk That's even better! ✊👍

[@funkdrunk]

@@perihelion7445 Seriously. I love computers (and jogging in balance). You reply very fast, which tells me you live in the electronic world too! Whatever your stance, nice to hear from the other side of the world! Stay healthy!

[@alinaremelts3118]

Thank you for this presentation!

[@daisymickey9330]

Thank you for this video!

[@PacoOtis]

Excellent! Dude! We definitely owe you a beer! Thanks for the information!

[@festeplatte4225]

How did you handle it?

[@josipkova5402]

When this event happen ?

[@kajalind82]

Are there links to the articles referenced in this talk? So I can print them out, obviously, and read them that way....because I want to stimulate my brain and learn something :)

[@tombrunila2695]

Just stop the video when an article name appears, write down the name and the authors and then write them in google and look for them

[@menkedegroot3382]

Buy his books.

[@funkdrunk]

There are no articles! This is all Dr Spitzer own invention and theory. Good for making money on books!

[@cl759]

U can buy the book ;

[@istvanheimer1845]

trouble is I do not get all the magazines in papaer that I can read on my computer, like listening to this lecture and others on KZbin (Yale, Clumbia, etc. the greatest of professors) and not in person :( - any suggestion? Thanx God I was growing up in the 60s :) even learning a new language is most available on my computer :(

[@funkdrunk]

Yes! If we relied on books, we would never hear of Dr Spitzer selling his books. He uses electronic media to spread his scary messages. Moms get scared and punish their children. All that KZbin and Google do more to your kid's brain that school slavery. Pity kids in Germany have no option to stay at home. Slavery at school, and slavery in parent's mind

[@oscarsharkslayer]

Lots of talking about shortsightedness with insufficient emphasis that books are as bad as computers. Shall we stop learning? At least, computer screens are often cast on the wall or on the TV that is on the other side of the room. Manfred Spitzer found an enemy and now seeks evidence against it.

[@stylianosisaakidis3565]

without having seen the video...but I have seen other ones by M.S., I believe the shortsightedness part is not the most important one. The enemy wasn't found by M.S., the enemy is real, and it's in your pocket or in your hand, either you see it or not...

[@funkdrunk]

@@stylianosisaakidis3565 If you see an enemy that does not exist, you should worry about your mental health :)

[@oscarsharkslayer]

@@stylianosisaakidis3565 your enemy is my friend!

[@stylianosisaakidis3565]

@@oscarsharkslayer let's agree we don't share friends... and I do hope you have many more friends i.r.l.