uchicago-computation-workshop / andrey_rzhetsky

Repository for Andrey Rzhetsky's presentation at the CSS Workshop (4/25/2019)
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ADHD- Environmental or Hereditary? #7

Open policyglot opened 5 years ago

policyglot commented 5 years ago

On your visualization of diseases on the axes of heritability and prevalence, ADHD seemed to rank fairly high on both fronts. To what extent can technology be factored into the environmental factors for this higher score? Research at the University of Michigan seems to suggest that specific technology such as smartphones may be exacerbating ADHD-like symptoms. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/are-our-smartphones-afflicting-us-all-symptoms-adhd/