What is Digital Dementia? Attention to Your Children!
The fact that children or young people spend game-based time with devices such as phones, tablets, computers, or spending time on social media is one of the serious evils of technology and the main reason why part of the brain is always lazy. Experts came up with a new term and called it digital dementia. Dementia was a kind of forgetting or not being able to remember, and digital dementia means forgetfulness caused by digital devices. What children and teens experience is to forget or not remember precisely because of these digital gadgets. This is called digital dementia.
According to some researches, it has been observed that teenagers and children who spend a long time with digital devices have difficulty in their daily routines or remembering some things said.
It is stated by experts that some imbalances occur in the brain due to the long-term use of technological devices. It is stated that people who are very interested in technological devices have a problem such as forgetting some things quickly.
Overuse of technological devices causes serious setbacks in the two lobes of the brain. While the left side of the brain shows a serious development, the right side may face a serious underdevelopment or laziness.
When the expected development does not occur in the right side of the brain, which deals with situations such as concentration, attention and recall, the disease called digital dementia occurs. It reveals the fact that people who experience digital dementia may experience complete forgetfulness or have difficulty remembering at a very young age.
