This document discusses how digital technology and social media can negatively impact brain development and social skills in young people. It finds that face-to-face social interaction is important for social competence, while excessive TV watching and computer game use is linked to lower education levels and less parental attention. Studies also show that a lack of self-control from an early age can influence health outcomes decades later.

1. Digital Dementia
By Manfred Spitzer
Nina Dames

2. Saving things
 When something is saved, we forget
it.
 Adds use this way of thinking

4. Facebook etc.
 Face-to-face-communication is
essential for social behaviour
The more Face- to –face-
communication young people
have, the more competent
they are socially

5. More social life- Bigger brain
 Study: Apes living with
- Small group: smaller brain
- Bigger group: bigger brain

7. TV-watching
 Obviously it is not the only
connection between TV-consum and
educational standards
 The more TV young people watch,
the less higher education they get
 (and less attention they get from
parents)

9. Computer games
 Learning by playing… it’s obvious
BUT: How does playing computer
games influence young people
socially?

13. Auto-Control / Stress
 Stress is a lack of control
 1950 Scottish Scientists: 1200kids
(14 years)

14. 55 years later
 “Controlled” kids:
 “Non-controlled” kids:

15. STUDY: 60 kids

1. watching cartoon (11 sec.)
2. watching educ. film (34 sec.)
3. drawing

16. 4 TESTS:
1. Changing a tower

17. 2. Head-shoulder- knees- toes

18. 3. Marshmallow test

19. 4. Inverted Numbers

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