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Change Your Brain Every Day

The Hidden Psychology of Technology, with Dr. Lisa Strohman

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Tech companies have a long history of using neuroscience to hook children at a young age, such as giving them access to Google suite accounts in the classroom. However, as Dr. Lisa Strohman illustrates, you can't choose between technology and psychology, you must learn how to use both responsibly. In this second episode with Strohman, the founder of Digital Citizen Academy, she and the Amens discuss how you can help your kids avoid attention hijack.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.

0:19.0

The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast is brought to you by Aaman Clinics, where we have been transforming lives

0:26.0

for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your brain.

0:32.7

For more information,

0:34.1

visit Aemin Clinics.com.

0:35.9

The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you by Brain MD

0:39.7

where we produce the highest quality nutraceuticals to support the health of your

0:44.0

brain and body. To learn more go to brainMD.com. Welcome back. We are here with

0:51.1

Dr. Lisa Stroman.

0:52.6

We're just so important during the pandemic.

0:57.0

But actually, for the rest of this child's life.

1:01.5

If you have not caught her previous episodes with us,

1:04.3

please listen to them.

1:05.4

They are so amazing.

1:06.8

And she also has a great TED Talk as well.

1:12.4

So let's talk about the psychology of technology. I became horrified as a child

1:19.7

psychiatrist when they unleashed this technology on our society with virtually no neuroscience study or no psychological study.

1:30.0

And just like you said, 1987, Atari came into my house. My son was 11 and he wouldn't stop with it. I'm like you could play for half an hour

1:47.3

this is so cool I didn't have cool toys like this when I but he wouldn't stop and

1:51.7

he went from being an a student to a B and C student with a lot more fighting at home at which point I took it out of the house and I'm like no you want to play at your friend's house that's up to you but

2:05.5

we're not doing this over and over and over again. Clearly it was going to a bad pattern. And then in 1997, Nintendo produced a Pokemon cartoon in Japan where there was an explosion on the cartoon of red, white, and yellow lights

2:29.4

at 4.5 flashes per second, which is actually a seizure frequency and all of a sudden

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