Researchers found that scrolling while pooping dramatically raises your chance of getting hemorrhoids

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The article reports that problematic smartphone use is linked to reduced gray matter in certain brain regions and altered brain connectivity, with changes seen in reward, control, and social processing networks. It synthesizes neuroimaging findings to explain how social feedback, fear of missing out, and social exclusion may reinforce smartphone-related behaviors.

This topic is of interest to psychology because it integrates brain structure and function with social and cognitive processes to explain a modern behavioral pattern, highlighting how digital environments shape motivation, self-regulation, and emotional processing.

Article Title: Reduced gray matter and altered brain connectivity are linked to problematic smartphone use

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/reduced-gray-matter-and-altered-brain-connectivity-are-linked-to-problematic-smartphone-use/

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#SmartphoneUse #Neuroimaging #RewardProcessing #ExecutiveControl #SocialCognition

Researchers found that scrolling while pooping dramatically raises your chance of getting hemorrhoids

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👆Stiamo tutti rischiando il "mignolo da smartphone", salvaguardiamo la nostra salute digitale! #SmartphoneUse #HealthAwareness

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/smartphone/smartphone-pinky-rischio-per-la-maggioranza-2025-12-06

University of Oregon: Study finds minimal link between smartphone use and adult well-being. “A new study led by researchers at the University of Oregon in collaboration with Google Research has found little evidence linking smartphone use with mental well-being in adults.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/15/university-of-oregon-study-finds-minimal-link-between-smartphone-use-and-adult-well-being/

Thing's that go on in your head if you're trying to minimise your environmental impact-

What's less damaging - Buying a paper ticket on the tram, or buying the tram ticket online?

This is a genuine question as I currently find myself frozen between the two, having only recently learned how much damage we do to the climate just by using our smart phones.

#environmentaldamage
#smartphoneuse
#paperuse
#recycling
#environmentalharm
#netzero
#carbonfootprint

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-smartphone-city-forests.html
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Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1658079672310063110#m

#Smartphoneuse goes up in city parks, but down in forests https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00139165231167165 https://phys.org/news/2023-05-smartphone-city-forests.html