Adam Gazzaley - Cognition Crisis: The Perils & Promise of Technology & the Brain

Constant engagement with technology interferes with the pursuit of behaviors critical for maintaining a healthy mind, such as nature exposure, physical movement, face-to-face contact, and restorative sleep. We're just beginning to understand technology's negative influence on empathy, compassion, cooperation, and social bonding, and we're not going to be able to put the tech genie back in the bottle. In this session, Dr. Adam Gazzaley, Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will discuss how even thoughtfully designed and well-intentioned next-generation information technology will likely continue to stress our brains — and how we can explore creative approaches to addressing these problems.