Dr. Mari Swingle Author of i-Minds joins Dr. Brian Razzino on the mental health podcast Bitesized Therapy to talk Internet Addiction and the affect on gaming on mental health
Key Moments:
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0:58 Show Start Internet Addiction Dr Mari Swingle
1:38 Unique Brain Wave Pattern Marker for Internet Addiction
2:38 IA or Screen Addiction
2:49 What Does IA Alpha Brain Waves Look Like?
3:18 Alpha Signature Screen Addiction
3:46 Subjective States Alpha Wave Spike
4:12 Alpha is the magic brain wave explanation
5:40 Kids Behavioral Issues
6:36 Kids Creativity Hijacked by gaming
7:39 Outliers
7:54 Brain Body Illnesses Fibromyalgia Chronic Fatigue
8:28 What makes you an addict?
8:54 Kids Sleeping Less
9:21 Behaviors Parents Should Look For
9:40 Gamers Industry Cherry Picks Research
10:10 Types of Alpha Brain Waves
10:48 Alcohol Example What are the effects
12:14 Game Companies Design games to be addictive
12:52 How Alcohol affects the brain will depend on individual
13:43 Genes Matter
14:35 Kids with Neurodivergence Issues
15:34 You have to feed an active brain or it will look for other things
16:16 ADHD Children Spectrum DON’T PERMIT TECH!
17:12 Neuronal Pruning
18:05 Autism Gaming acts as analgesic
19:05 Tinnitus
19:40 Lack of ability to read facial ques
21:19 Brain Waves don’t lie
22:20 9 yr old with focus and anxiety issues alpha brain wave changes gaming
23:10 18 Yr old anxiety
23:33 Theta Waves back of brain = anxiety
23:49 Theta Brain Wave explanation
24:08 Beta Brain Wave explanation
24:57 Gaming and anxiety is inverse relationship
26:47 NFL and gamers Both Get brain Damage from their sport Professional Gamer story
29:27 When people stop gaming brain recovers 90 days
30:30 Healthy Theta Beta Ratio
32:03 Connection Critical caregiver and child
33:30 Parents Screen Use = Silent Treatment
36:18 Temporal Sequencing reading face vs gaming
37:00 Public Health Crisis
38:54 Age Ranges to look out for tech use
40:00 Compliment not an override
41:00 Smile response issue with kids
42:10 Playing in nature vs electronics
42:34 Urban/Rural Issue?
44:04 Poverty of environment
46:15 Parenting Trap
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Dr. Mari K. Swingle (AKA Dr. Mari)
Mari K. Swingle, PhD, is a Board-Certified Neurotherapist (2000), BCIA Fellow (2010), Senior Fellow (2017), AAPB Fellow 2020. She has Level Two Certification in EMDR, EFT, Level One Craniosacral Therapy, and practices under RCC Designation. Dr. Mari speaks regularly on the topic of technology, societal shifts, and mental health. She is also the Author of i-Minds: How Cell Phones, Computers, Gaming and Social Media are Changing Our Brains, Our Behavior, and the Evolution of Our Species. –And i-Minds 2.0 (Second Edition): How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it (available April 2019).