Digital Dementia

How We Are Driving Ourselves and Our Children Out of Our Minds

The digital media are relieving us of our brainwork. Nowadays what we used to achieve with our heads is taken care of by computers, smartphones, day planners and navigation devices. According to Manfred Spitzer, the well-known bin researcher, this is the cause of immense dangers. The results of his research are appalling: digital media lead to addiction, and in the long term they endanger the body and above all the brain. Spitzer describes the alarming development and argues that children in particular should be obliged to limit their consumption, in order to counteract digital dementia.

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  • Publisher: Droemer TB
  • Release: 01.10.2014
  • ISBN: 978-3-426-30056-5
  • 368 Pages
  • Author: Manfred Spitzer
Digital Dementia
Manfred Spitzer Digital Dementia
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Manfred Spitzer

Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer, born in 1958, studied medicine, psychology and philosophy and subsequently gained his doctorate in psychiatry. He was twice a visiting lecturer at Harvard University. He heads up the psychiatry department at Universitätsklinik in Ulm and the Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning. He has published numerous books, including the bestsellers: Lernen, Vorsicht Bildschirm!, Digitale Demenz, Cyberkrank and Einsamkeit. Manfred Spitzer is one of the most important German brain researchers. Hardly anyone else can present findings as pithily and clearly as him.