Susan Greenfield

The effects of technology on brain function have been questioned recently. The director of the Royal Institution, Professor Susan Greenfield, has linked social networking sites with loss of concentration in children. She has also blamed...

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...23 Sep 2009 LEFT TO RIGHT: Nick Robertson, Ed Richards and Tom Loosemore Photo: PA/EDDIE MULHOLLAND/PR LEFT TO RIGHT: Baroness Greenfield, Brent Hoberman and Michael Birch Photo: GEOFF PUGH/MARINA IMPERI/EDDIE MULHOLLAND Felix Miller...

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...it is for their children to spend hours enthralled by a two-dimensional world of computer games and cyber relationships. Enter Susan Greenfield, a baroness. Toss out twin-set and pearl visions of a crusty old toff who only reads Country...

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...can be associated with physiological changes, increased illness and higher premature mortality. And leading neuroscientist Dr Susan Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Oxford University, has made the case that social networking...

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...distracted, or whether those prone to distraction preferred to surround themselves with electronic media. Earlier this year Susan Greenfield, an Oxford University neuroscientist and director of the Royal Institution, warned that websites...

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...with many millions of others, likely make an emergency appointment with your psychologist this week. After all, the words of Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln College in Oxford, England, have probably...

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Greenfield warns social networking sites are changing children's brains, resulting in selfish and attention deficient young people Social networking sites, such as Facebook, are putting attention span in jeopardy, says Baroness...

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...a media centre and public outreach, all in the same place. " So what would Faraday have thought of the new RI? Greenfield is confident he would have been pleased. "Given that Faraday was heavily biased towards the empirical approach,...

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...Updated: 5:04PM GMT 12 Dec 2008 "We should cherish our big personalities," she says. "He is a survivor and I admire survivors." Susan Greenfield is, of course, a chum of Lady Archer, who shares her passion for science. Better times have...

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...with a plan to save our children What sort of a teenager cuts open a rabbit's head for fun? The Susan Greenfield sort. Clever, solitary and bored, she once bought a dead animal from the butcher and carried it home, for an operation on...

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