'SMS not radiation' affects kids' brains

Regular predictive texting, not radiation, affects the brain power of mobile phone using young people, say Australian experts., reports ABC Science.

Epidemiologist Professor Michael Abramson of Monash University and colleagues report their findings online ahead of print publication in the journal Bioelectromagnetics.

"We suspect that using mobile phones a lot, particularly things like predictive texts for SMS is training kids to be fast but inaccurate," says Abramson.

... "We don't think that the mobile phones are frying their brains," says Abramson. He says repeated predictive texting is likely to be training the young people to act fast without thinking, not caring about accuracy.

"If you're used to operating in that environment and entering a couple of letters and getting the word you want, you expect to be like that," says Abramson.

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emily | 8:40 AM | Health Issues and SMS Alerts |
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