Technology and sustained attention

Watch neuroscientist Neil Bailey discuss the impact that technology can have on our attention and how mindfulness meditation can help focus your attention.

If you’d like to find out more about the research and current thinking in this area, consider exploring the following links to news as well as more scholarly articles on the subject from peer reviewed journals. We hope you find them informative.

• The Facebook experiment – does social media affect the quality of our lives

• Social Media Use and Perceived Social Isolation Among Young Adults in the U.S.

• Association between social media use and depression among U.S young adults

• Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotion cues

• Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) among German students – A longitudinal approach

• Depression, anxiety, and smartphone addiction in university students – A cross sectional study

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