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March 19, 2025 – MRI images of addicted smartphone users’ brains were so colorful, meaning so active, it made them less attentive and more easily distracted — what is now informally called “brain rot.”Nelson says emerging research points to even greater risks.
“We’re just starting to see these changes, and we know they’re connected to behavioral changes, depression, anxiety,” Nelson said. “The dangers are hiding in there.”
Rosenberg agrees with that assessment.
“Social media had really influenced me in a lot of ways,” Rosenberg said. “TikTok would kind of push these videos of people popping an edible before school. And I was like, ‘If I do this, maybe I’ll be cool.’ And I started self-medicating.”
To deal with that, last year, she checked into a treatment facility. She believes that if she had not gone to treatment, “I don’t think I’d be here. It was really bad.”
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