SMARTMOBILE AND SMART BRAIN INTER-RELATION, A GLOBAL CHALLENGE

RAJANI KESARI
Page No.19-21

Usage of mobile phone has inceased rampenly irrespective of age and gender or geographical demarcations as a mode  not only for educational but also entertainment purpose. As evidenced by penetration of smart phone usage in most remote rural places, it also has certain negative effect in the larger arena like emotional response, coagnitive capacities. Here is a attempt to explain the correlation between mobile phone addiction and subsequent brain changes. Rate of penetration of smart phones: 58% (2022)  , double then the financial year 2016 Estimated to reach 96% by 2040 Smart-phones shipment across INDIA- 149.7 million Subscribers base in INDIA- 1.1billion Average data consumption per person per month- 19.5 gigabites Data traffic - 4G = 90% Most popular categories of app- social media
Keywords: Addiction, Smartphones, Microstat, Brain neuro-chemical axis, Audiatory Processing, EEG.