Is Multi-Tasking Bad for Your Brain? ; We Surf the Net As We Chat On the Phone, and Text As We Watch Tv. Doing Lots of Things at Once has Become Second Nature - but Experts Warn It Sends Hormones Haywire and Can Even Give You Heart Problems

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MULTI-TASKING has rapidly taken over our lives, to the point where we look woefully lax if we're doing just one thing at a time.

We think nothing of texting while also watching television, surfing the internet and talking to our family. Indeed, drug companies are busy developing products to enhance our mental efficiency so that we can do even more.

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Is Multi-Tasking Bad for Your Brain? ; We Surf the Net As We Chat On the Phone, and Text As We Watch Tv. Doing Lots of Things at Once has Become Second Nature - but Experts Warn It Sends Hormones Haywire and Can Even Give You Heart Problems

But scientists are discovering that today's mania for cramming everything in at once is creating a perilous cocktail of brain problems, from severe stress and rage in adults to learning problems and autism-like behaviour in children. It also, ironically, often makes us less efficient. Advances in medical-scanning technology mean we can now watch what happens in the brain when people try to perform more than one complex task at a time. And the ...

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