Anhedonia and excessive technology use

Anhedonia and excessive technology use

It’s a Sunday afternoon and I’m sitting in the backseat of our family car. The air is thick with silence, broken only by the hum of the engine and the occasional murmur of my dad’s voice as he takes a work call. My mom’s eyes are glued to her phone as she scrolls, completely absorbed, through old pictures in her camera roll, completely absorbed. In the front seat, my sister is snapping selfies, sending them off to a never-ending stream of friend…

People are losing the ability to read: technology use is the culprit

When most people hear the phrase “technology rots your brain,” they may not think of it as literally rotting a person’s brain. However, studies show that this expression may not be too far from the truth. It might be especially worrying for college students to find out that technology use may be causing them to...