Name: 放下手機！沉迷手機可能會對我們的大腦造成「這些」傷害！ (How smartphone addiction may be hurting our brains)
Uploaded: 2025-03-22T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 3 min 25 s

According to a survey, the average smartphone user scrolls the equivalent of 78 miles a year, that's three marathons, maybe good exercise for your finger, but there is evidence it may be hurting your brain.

一項調查顯示，智能手機用戶平均每年的滾動距離相當於 78 英里，相當於三個馬拉松，也許這對鍛鍊手指有好處，但有證據表明，這可能會傷害你的大腦。

Katie P. Drosenberg, a freshman at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

凱蒂-P-德羅森伯格（Katie P. Drosenberg），北卡羅來納大學阿什維爾分校新生。

Recently realized what too much scrolling was doing to her.

最近，她意識到滾動頁面太多對她的影響。

How many hours were you spending on your phone?

Oh God, probably like nine, I was just kind of constantly on it.

哦，天哪，大概有九個吧，我就一直在想。

You may have heard stories like hers before.

Because I would have to take out my phone every couple of minutes.

因為我每隔幾分鐘就得拿出手機。

But now you can actually see the science behind it.

但現在，你可以看到它背後的科學依據了。

All over the brain, and specifically grows here and it shrinks there.

它遍佈大腦，具體地說，這裡生長，那裡萎縮。

Psychiatrist Brent Nelson is applying this new science at Newport Healthcare, which has mental health treatment centers for teens across the country.

精神科醫生布倫特-尼爾森（Brent Nelson）正在紐波特醫療保健公司（Newport Healthcare）應用這門新科學，該公司在全國各地都設有青少年心理健康治療中心。

This is a brain that's addicted to a smartphone.

這是一個沉迷於智能手機的大腦。

These are MRI images from a recent study in Korea, all the red indicates increases in brain activity, the effects of smartphone addiction.

這些是最近在韓國進行的一項研究中獲得的核磁共振成像影像，所有紅色都表示大腦活動的增加，即智能手機成癮的影響。

Do you want your brain to be this colorful?

你想讓你的大腦如此豐富多彩嗎？

Well, because this is showing where the brain is working extra hard.

嗯，因為這顯示了大腦工作特別努力的地方。

Compared to a non-addicted brain when asked to do actually a pretty simple task.

與未上癮的大腦相比，當被要求完成一項其實很簡單的任務時。

Addicted smartphone users brains were so colorful, so active, it made them less attentive and more easily distracted, what's now informally called brain rot.

沉迷於智能手機的用戶的大腦是如此豐富多彩，如此活躍，這讓他們注意力不集中，更容易分心，現在人們非正式地稱之為大腦腐爛。

Sitting in class and you're trying to focus, they're going to be looking around, not attending to what the teacher is trying to teach them.

坐在課堂上，你想集中注意力，他們就會東張西望，不聽老師講課。

Dr. Nelson says emerging research points to even greater risks.

尼爾森博士說，新的研究表明風險更大。

We're just starting to see these changes and we know they're connected to behavioral changes, depression, anxiety, the dangers are are hiding in there.

我們剛剛開始看到這些變化，我們知道它們與行為變化、抑鬱、焦慮有關，危險就隱藏在其中。

Social media had really influenced me in a lot of ways.

社交媒體確實在很多方面影響了我。

Tik Tok 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.

我就想，如果我也這麼做，也許我會變得很酷，於是我開始自我麻醉。

To deal with that, last year she checked into a treatment facility.

為了解決這個問題，去年她住進了一家治療機構。

If you hadn't gone to treatment, where would you be today?

如果沒有接受治療，你今天會在哪裡？

Katie had to give up her phone in treatment.

凱蒂在治療中不得不放棄手機。

There she found other outlets from drawing to playing guitar, it helped rewire her Gen Z brain.

在那裡，她找到了其他的出路，從畫畫到彈吉他，這有助於重新連接她的 Z 世代大腦。

The key perhaps, analog antidotes reminiscent of another generation.

關鍵或許在於讓人想起另一代人的模擬解毒劑。

Playing in the dirt, drinking from the hose.

Is shown to actually allow folks to recover, to feel better, to to to make it easier to kind of go about their day.

事實證明，它能讓人們恢復健康，感覺更好，更輕鬆地度過每一天。

In short, it's good to stop scrolling and start strumming.

總之，停止滾動並開始彈奏是件好事。

For Eye on America, I'm Meg Oliver in Asheville, North Carolina.

美國之眼》記者梅格-奧利弗（Meg Oliver）在北卡羅來納州阿什維爾採訪。

Katie used to spend nine hours a day on her phone, now she is down to less than two, good for her.

凱蒂過去每天花九個小時玩手機，現在她只花不到兩個小時，這對她來說是件好事。