Is Social Media Breaking Our Brains? Let's Ask a Neuroscientist!

Screens and social media are allegedly giving us anxiety, shortening our attention spans and changing our brains in ways that may be irreversible....at least according to the articles I have read. But I want to parse fact from fiction and click-bait headlines from actual scientific studies. Here to answer all of my burning questions about whether social media is breaking my brain and if so how I can fix it is our new resident UTI neuroscientist Brett Abrahams.  Subscribe to the Over the Influence newsletter here. Buy yourself a copy of The Sicilian Inheritance here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices