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American adults owning a smartphone these days, researchers in switzerland have found that those who use devices have higher brain activity than those who use old style cell phones. lets talk about it with dr. nina radcliffe. if anyone has been around me more than two seconds they know im a mad texter. i use my thumbs and others use fingers but ive never imagined in a world smartphone of technology this is actually helping my brain. how in the world is it helping my brain? >> itaking us smarter....

>> god bless them. >> and america. i am all about america and the fact that my shirt needs to be buttoned, but thats another story and it is too late. if i button it now, it ruined the continuity. a picture is worth a thousand brain waves a. a company is developing a software that will take a picture by thinking about it. the mind blowing app works with a brain monitor to interpret brain activity and will cause the camera to snap a photo. thats great. think brrrr it some more and your -- think a...

>> god bless them. >> and america. i am all about america and the fact that my shirt needs to be buttoned, but thats another story and it is too late. if i button it now, it ruined the continuity. a picture is worth a thousand brain waves a. a company is developing a software that will take a picture by thinking about it. the mind blowing app works with a brain monitor to interpret brain activity and will cause the camera to snap a photo. thats great. think brrrr it some more and your -- think a...

>> god bless them. >> and america. i am all about america and the fact that my shirt needs to be buttoned, but thats another story and it is too late. if i button it now, it ruined the continuity. a picture is worth a thousand brain waves a. a company is developing a software that will take a picture by thinking about it. the mind blowing app works with a brain monitor to interpret brain activity and will cause the camera to snap a photo. thats great. think brrrr it some more and your -- think a...

His brain activity and like the doctor said, we have to actually adapt in realtime so our software and methods that analyze data have to adapt and get better and better. at the same time ian is getting better and better. usually after five or ten minutes, his performance is just unbelievable. >> constantly improving over time. >> take us out whether a couple months or a couple years. where do you want to see the technology go? how would it change the use of prosthetics in the future? where do yo...

Brain activity slow in those conditions but can continue and return to normal as the plane descen descends. a pair of prep school grads accused of conducting a drug ring. trace gallagher has more on this story. >> it happened in an affluent suburb of philadelphia. the two suspects you see here, 25-year-old neal scott and 18-year-old timothy brooks, actually attended haverton prep school. they used their connections to set up the business. police say they were moving several pounds of drugs a w...

Completely vegatative state, they have no brain activity. and half have minimal consciousness. they put probes on the side of their brain and did a very superficial stimulation of the brain. about half of those started to have some reaction. they were able to squeeze your finger, able to move their eyes. this is quite interesting. >> then they go back? >> about 20 minutes of system lace, -- 20 minutes of stimulation they are able to show some signs of life and after that they go back to the coma...

They can look at their brain activity. >> why is that important? >> when theyre sedated you wouldnt be able know what the brain is doing. so the fact theyre conscious lets us really know they did in fact have positive responses to the sounds of people laughing, and they also had positive responses to doings do things like play barking. >> what is interesting, too, i was tweeting this. some people have said that dog is mans best friend. are they better capable at reading our emotions than somebod...

Study what keeps them in love or -- >> everything. heather: okay. >> the first study was people who fallen happily, madly in love. second was people who were rejected in love. third scanning was people in love long term, people in 50ss, 60s, married an average of 21 years, we put them in the scanner to see what would happen. they say, were still in love. we barely believed them. americans dont believe you can stay in love. we found the same activity with brain activity at this, dopamine that giv...

With the puzzles than it is to solve the puzzles? >> theyre different skills. what i do and what the puzzle makers do is creative. were trying to play with your brain, but we do want you to -- >> try to trick us too a little bit. >> but we want you to get the answer eventually. solving, you have to know a little of everything, be a good speller, have a flexible mind, see through the tricks. >> speaking of tricks, this just came out recently talking about brain activity. arthur chu, hes been play...