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Technology And Technology

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Despite technology being a practical tool to gain knowledge and information, it can be damaging to brain health. Overindulging in the use of technology can result in physical, mental, and emotional issues. If a person overuses technology can it damage their body? And if so how can you treat it? In order to start research on the topic, we must first study the composition of the brain to gain a comprehensive understanding of how the brain works.

The Brain is the central control system of the body, without it there is not personality nor consciousness. From the anatomical point of view, the brain is composed of both gray and white matter. The gray matter is made of around 100 billion neurons. The purpose of neurons are to send electric signals between each other in order for the body to sense pain, pressure, pleasure, etc. The white matter is composed of dendrites and axons. The purpose of the dendrites and axons is to connect the neurons and transmit the signals between them. Between every other organ in the body, the brain is the fattiest. Although it is composed of around 75% water, it has a minimum consistency of 60% fat! Technology can help the brain on a physical means if an injury or mutation has occurred.

Using a physiological perspective, the brain controls every system, somatic or autonomic, in the body. Brain death is a severe example of the brain not functioning. Brain death can be caused by many incidents such as: trauma, cerebrovascular injury, anoxia

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