ISD in the Media: How does the smartphone change your brain?

Posted in August 26, 2019

How does the smartphone mess with your brain and change your body's control center? Edgard Morya, Research Coordinator of the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD), is one of the interviewees in this special article on the Tilt channel, published on the UOL portal. Read a fragment of the report below:

“You may not realize it, but something happens in your brain every time your cell phone screen lights up. The device has already become an essential part of our body and even affects our control center: it can change it, replace it in some functions or condition it to behave in a certain way.”

Text:  Ariane Mondo / Ascom – ISD

Illustration: Eryk Souza / Canal Tilt UOL 

Communication Office
comunicacao@isd.org.br
(84) 99416-1880

Santos Dumont Institute (ISD)

Social organization that maintains ties with the Ministry of Education (MEC) and whose mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research and extension actions and to contribute to a fairer and more humane transformation of the Brazilian social reality.

Communication Office
comunicacao@isd.org.br
(84) 99416-1880

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ISD in the Media: How does the smartphone change your brain?

How does the smartphone mess with your brain and change your body's control center? Edgard Morya, Research Coordinator of the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD), is one of the interviewees in this special article on the Tilt channel, published on the UOL portal. Read a fragment of the report below:

“You may not realize it, but something happens in your brain every time your cell phone screen lights up. The device has already become an essential part of our body and even affects our control center: it can change it, replace it in some functions or condition it to behave in a certain way.”

Text:  Ariane Mondo / Ascom – ISD

Illustration: Eryk Souza / Canal Tilt UOL 

Communication Office
comunicacao@isd.org.br
(84) 99416-1880

Santos Dumont Institute (ISD)

Social organization that maintains ties with the Ministry of Education (MEC) and whose mission is to promote education for life, forming citizens through integrated teaching, research and extension actions and to contribute to a fairer and more humane transformation of the Brazilian social reality.

Communication Office
comunicacao@isd.org.br
(84) 99416-1880

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