Research has shown that smartphone addiction causes major increases in brain activity, requiring the brain to work harder to complete simple tasks.

While not a medical term, brain rot describes the slow decline of cognitive function due to mental stagnation, overstimulation, and poor lifestyle choices. In an exclusive interaction with the ...

The first recorded use of ‘brain rot’ was found in 1854 in Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden, according to Oxford University Press. “While England endeavours to cure the potato rot ...

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It’s official. “Brain rot” is the Oxford dictionary’s word of the year. Many of us have felt that fuzzy feeling before, usually brought on by a digital overload. Oxford University Press ...