Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses a recent study, “Your Brain on Google” in which blood flow patterns were compared in internet – naïve brains before and after using the internet and found an increased brain activity in short-term memory and decision making.

Reading:
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