Abstract

As remote living approaches its third year, the number of outpatients complaining of poor health has been increasing, including those in the prime of their working lives. The cause is, without a doubt, smartphones. The symptoms are similar to those of dementia, but they are caused by "brain fatigue (brain overwork). The cause is the depletion of "brain energy.
The year before last, "Smartphone Brain" became a bestseller and the relationship between smartphones and the brain became a hot topic. However, several years before that, the author had been paying attention to the relationship between smartphones and the brain from a medical standpoint. Recently, he has pointed out that the risk of depression, not to mention forgetfulness, is tripled. Psychological anxiety is also expected to be prolonged, as the chronic coronary disaster situation will not improve anytime soon, and smartphone dependence is likely to increase more and more. In particular, the number of patients of both genders and those in their prime working years is increasing.
Smartphones have become an indispensable part of business, and we are no longer in the age of "how to get along with smartphones. In this book, specialists in "outpatient memory loss" and "dementia and depression" explain how to deal with smartphones in daily life in a reasonable way. It also introduces the fact that depression has a great possibility of progressing to dementia, and also shows how high the risk of depression is for harming one's health.

Author’s Information

医学博士。おくむらメモリークリニック院長。岐阜大学医学部卒業、同大学大学院博士課程修了。
アメリカ・ノースカロライナ神経科学センターに留学後、岐阜大学附属病院脳神経外科病棟医長併任講師等を経て、2008年に「おくむらクリニック」を開院。
「もの忘れ外来」を中心に、全国から毎日100人以上の受診者が来院し、これまでに10万人以上の脳を診断。
脳神経外科医として認知症やうつ病に関する診察も多く経験し、日本脳神経外科学会(評議員)・日本認知症学会(認定専門医・指導医)・日本うつ病学会他の学会で活躍している。