Deluge Of Information From Emails, News Alerts And Twitter Updates 'Not Good For Brain'

A new research says that constant emails, news alerts, and Twitter updates are overloading the human brain and making people's responses dismissive.

The deluge of information from 24-hour news, mobile phones and social networking sites moves too fast for the brain's 'moral compass' to process.

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According to two newly published scientific studies, people's reactions to traumatic news stories are becoming increasingly dismissive as their minds are trying to seek comfort in the simpler things.

The research claims that this overload may also be causing increasing levels of depression, reports The Telegraph.

Professor Dilip Jeste said that the neurones linked to traits such as human wisdom or empathy, are sited in the slower acting, recently evolved regions of our brain, that are bypassed when the world feels stressful, the Archives of General Psychiatry reports.

Twitter And Facebook Harm Moral Values, Warn Scientists
Cyberspace might keep you socially happy, but in reality, social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook harm moral values, as they don't allow time for compassion or admiration, warn scientists.

On the same lines, scientists at the University of Southern California's Brain and Creativity Institute have aired concerns in their latest study: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition.

Their study's volunteers showed people needed longer to react fully to stories of social pain with emotions like compassion, than to react at an unemotive level.

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