THE CHILD’S BRAIN AND TECHNOLOGY (PRESS ESC) DR MANFRED SPITZER Professor Dr Manfred Spitzer, a German psychiatrist, psychologist, neuroscientist and author, is one of the most well-known and respected neuroscientists in the world.
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hile in Namibia, Dr Spritzer shared his knowledge on what technology is doing to our brains and our ability to learn, and what this effect will have on us as we age.
Korean physicians who had to deal with middle-aged men who couldn’t concentrate, felt depressed, lacked motivation and had memory problems, and it turned out that they all spent a lot of time in front of computers. Not just working, that would be okay, but rather in their leisure time; they were fighting monsters and all that. After having dealt with quite a few of those cases, they coined the term ‘digital dementia’ for the negative mental effects of the overuse of digital
MYD: Dr Spritzer, you have done some incredible research into ‘digital dementia’. Please share with us what this means. MS: The term isn’t my invention. It was coined by South
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