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Well, I for one have certainly been suffering from memory loss etc. So that is what
is causing it. Too much computer. I am not
making a joke either.
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Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 6:36 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Mad Computer Disease
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THE TIMES
February 4 2001 BRITAIN
Computer-mad generation has a memory crash
Cherry Norton and Adam Nathan
GROWING numbers of people in their twenties and thirties are suffering from severe
memory loss
because of increasing reliance on computer technology, according to new research.
Sufferers complain they are unable to recall names, written words or appointments, and
in some cases
have had to give up their jobs.
Doctors are blaming computer technology, electronic organisers and automatic car
navigation systems.
They claim these gadgets lead to diminished use of the brain to work out problems and
inflict
"information overload" that makes it difficult to distinguish between important and
unimportant
facts.
A preliminary study of 150 people aged 20 to 35 has shown that more than one in 10 are
suffering
from severe problems with their memory. Researchers from Hokkaido University's school
of medicine in
Japan said the memory dysfunction among the young required further investigation.
"They're losing the ability to remember new things, to pull out old data or to
distinguish between
important and unimportant information. It's a type of brain dysfunction," said
Toshiyuki Sawaguchi,
the university's professor of neurobiology. "Young people today are becoming stupid."
One high-flying 28-year-old salesman treated by Dr Sawaguchi was forced to give up his
job when he
found himself forgetting where he was going, who he was supposed to be seeing or, when
he finally
got there, what he was selling.
Although no formal studies have been undertaken in Britain, experts are increasingly
recognising the
problem. Professor Pam Briggs of Northumbria University, who recently chaired a British
Psychological Society symposium on the effects of technology, said: "I think increased
use of the
internet and computer technology is starting to have an effect. Everyday memory might
be at threat
if you are using the computer as a kind of external memory."
Dr Takashi Tsukiyama, who runs a private clinic in Tokyo, said he had seen an increase
in severe
memory problems. "In the past two years, more people in their twenties and thirties
have presented
themselves with memory impairment," he said.
One sales assistant aged 28 said she suddenly found herself unable to recall written
words and was
dismissed from her job. "Ageing affects the brain's hardware, but errors may occur in
the brain's
'software' that have nothing to do with age but are related to someone's lifestyle,
such as not
using your brain enough," said Tsukiyama.
Dr David Cantor, director of the Psychological Services Institute in Atlanta, Georgia,
who has
treated patients for memory and attention problems for more than 20 years, said: "Many
experts
believe information overload is making it difficult for some people to absorb new
information, as
they have reached a limit of what they can store in their brains. These people forget
things because
they were too distracted to absorb them in the first place."
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