NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Prefrontal Cortex
29 Nov 2015
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Review handed out, thursday is an optional tutorial day* Di erent countries are trying to stop the growing "addiction" of internet use. Compensation for more pleasurable feelings than real life. Subtype, online sex addiction or subtype, internet addiction. Using the internet to engage in the activity on regular basis or is it the internet itself. Academic sphere requires the addicts to use the internet in their everyday lives. Therapy doesn"t follow traditional conventions of removing the substance. Maladaptive - less negative consequences as a full blown addict. Relate things such as brain change to other studies for the exam. Addiction is also dealing with the prefrontal cortex with problem solving and decision making such as multitasking. Nicolas arguments how our brain change when we use internet.
