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Stefania De Michele

From doomscrolling to nomophobia: new digital-age conditions reshaping our brains

Can you not go five minutes without checking your phone? Do you open Instagram "just for a second" and find that half an hour later you are still there? Do you wake up during the night and the first thing you do is check your notifications? Or do you keep scrolling through bad news even though you know perfectly well it is making you anxious?

Welcome to the age of new digital addictions.

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