Our brains are being fried — here’s why (and what to do about it)

You sit down to read a book. Two pages in and your eyes are moving but your brain is somewhere else. You’re having dinner with someone you love, but your mind keeps flitting back to emails, calendar invites and that buzz in your pocket that wasn’t actually a buzz.  

Congrats: you’ve entered the great brain fog of the 21st century.

In 2012, German neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer coined the term digital dementia.

It sounds a bit like something out of a Black Mirror plotline, but this phenomenon is real and rising. Today, the term digital dementia is used by researchers all over the world to describe the forgetfulness, mental fatigue and chronic inability to focus that results from tech overuse. In plain speak: our brains weren’t built for this much screen time.

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