Sort Your Brain Out
Many people these days worry about what intensive tech use might be doing to their brains. In particular, there is concern about how overuse of genAI might lead to problems. Happily there’s plenty of evidence for me to talk about in my 60 min keynote and it’s been going down really well with professional audiences from a wide variety of different industries.
Drinking green tea has long been associated with relaxation and, indeed, scientific investigation has now backed this up. Furthermore, the more green tea a person consumes, the lower the risk of cognitive impairment.
People who overuse their smartphones may gradually find themselves behaving in an increasingly anti-social manner compared to those who use them in moderation. It could even trigger a slide back into the incivility of previous ages.
Each year I look back on a year’s worth of brain tweets to see what’s been trending recently… here they’re carefully sorted & categorised for your delectation
People who exercise regularly have lower rates of anxiety & depression, even boasting greater cortical thickness in the prefrontal cortex & medial temporal lobe
Rats fed high fructose corn syrup supplement navigate a maze significantly slower than others fed normal rat feed: click here for full article.