Brain Bootcamp

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by Gary Small, M.D.

Is Technology Fracturing Your Family?

By Gary Small, M.D. on June 19, 2009 in Brain Bootcamp

For the past two decades, I have been developing advanced technologies to help us understand how the brain functions and changes over time. My group at UCLA invented a brain scanning technique that can detect the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease decades before people experience obvious symptoms. Read More

Wow! Someone finally said it!

Submitted by Anonymous on January 6, 2010 - 10:02pm.

Nice to read an article about this :) Of course, it wasn't in the newspaper delivered by the newspaper boy on my front porch, so I guess to some extent we are all victims.

I would love to throw my cell phone in the river, yet when I accidentally forget it at home I find myself feeling very awkward all day.

I will be quitting my job in the next two months trying to figure out how to get my family back on track, because I feel technology as well as the two-parent income has put a lot of strain on what is important to me...I am hoping all is not too late.

Thanks for the great article!

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Well Said!

Submitted by Anonymous on April 27, 2011 - 3:38pm.

I am a firm believer in eating dinner as a family. I am still a teenager myself but I enjoy it.

I was glad to see that someone else believes in it too. I love being able to talk as a family. We all get time to catch up with each other about our days or discuss anything new. We may be busy at times but we do try to make sure we have a family dinner.

You see those dinners where it's a couple or even a family and all they are doing is sitting there with their noses in their phones texting and not even talking to each other! I have a phone myself but we have a rule of no texting at the table and I do not text 24/7. It irritates me seeing situations like that. I find technology to be helpful at times but not to the point where I depend on it all the time.

This article was great and made me happy seeing someone talk about family dinners. We talk about it at home and I now find it to be very important. Thanks for the article!