Remember when your parents warned you TV would rot your brain? They were onto something – just a few decades early. Both “brain rot” and “brainrot” snagged Oxford Word of the Year 2024, beating out ...

In December, the Oxford University Press selected “brain rot” as its “Word of the Year”– taking into consideration more than 37,000 votes, worldwide public discussion, and analysis of ...

And last year, the rise of the term 'brain rot' was a sign we've accepted another ... I'm totally addicted to my phone,' Peter says. 'I mean, I'm very, very mindful of spending time away from ...

Students don’t have to be passively scrolling through brain rot videos on social media to be distracted from their schoolwork. Marciano says that researchers have found even having a phone out of ...

Brain rot is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content ...

An exuberant tweet from Charli XCX—"Kamala is brat!"—turbocharged the adjective. "Brain rot" made headlines last year. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he had suffered brain problems caused by high ...

A brain structure called the amygdala, and its connections with another region, the prefrontal cortex, shape people’s experiences and social interactions. The discovery of a key molecular ...

By embedding threads containing electrodes within the human brain, the company’s device allows paralyzed patients to engage with digital devices through their thoughts. Arbaugh, for example ...

Your brain has a lot of work to do, constantly balancing tasks while conserving energy. If you understand how the human brain decides what to pay attention to—and what to ignore—your public ...

“Even low-level exposure that people think is safe enough for public health is doing something at the brain level,” says Megan Herting, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern ...

Brain rot: “The supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be ...