Ira Hyman, a professor at Western Washington University who specializes in human memoryandcognition, contends that mobile devices are more distracting for parents than radio, conversation and other outside-the-home diversions of yesteryear.
Up to a third of cases are fatal and those who survive may face memory loss, impaired cognitionand motor difficulties (the virus affects the nervous system).
It may be that loneliness may affect systems in the brain dealing with cognitionandmemory, making lonely people more vulnerable to effects of age-related decline in neural pathways, he suggested.