How internet addiction may affect your teen’s brain, according to a new study [Video]

Teens who spend lots of time on social media have complained of feeling like they can’t pay attention to more important things like homework or time with loved ones.A new study has possibly captured that objectively, finding that for teens diagnosed with internet addiction, signaling between brain regions important for controlling attention, working memory and more was disrupted.Related video above: New social media campaign raises awareness for mental healthThe findings are from a review, published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Mental Health, of 12 neuroimaging studies of a few hundred adolescents ages 10 to 19 between 2013 and 2022.”The behavioural addiction brought on by excessive internet use has become a rising source of concern since the last decade,” the authors wrote in the study.The criteria for clinical diagnosis of internet addiction in the included studies were “one’s persistent preoccupation with the internet, withdrawal symptoms when away from the internet, and …