The British newspaper Daily Mail said that MRI images revealed that the brains of people who suffer from smartphone addiction have a size less than the gray matter in some The main parts of it.
Pictures showed decreased activity in the brains of smartphone addicts compared to non-addicts.
Similar patterns and trends of shrinking gray matter have been reported in the brains of drug addicts.
The German researchers examined 48 participants using MRI images, 22 of whom were classified as addicted to smartphones and 26 considered non-addicts.
Researchers wrote in the study, published in the journal (addiction behaviors): Individuals with smartphone addiction showed a smaller volume of gray matter in a part of the brain called an "inner insula". ).
They added that the decrease of gray matter in one of these areas of the brain, which is insulin, was previously associated with drug addiction.
Scientists said that this is the first physical evidence of a link between smartphone use and changes in the brain.
