Read the latest Susan Greenfield blog. Baroness Greenfield is an Oxford-based scientist, researcher, broadcaster and neuroscientist. She is at the helm of a multi-disciplinary research group that is focused on exploring novel mechanisms in the brain that could be linked to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Her work on psychology has been focused on uncovering elusive questions concerning the brain and consciousness. She is presently the CEO of Neuro Bio, a biotech company which she founded in 2013.

In participation with the International Stress Awareness Day, Susan Greenfield is being interviewed by Tom Meyers as part of the resources person in the upcoming event. The Free Online Stress Summit will take place on November 7, 2018, and will be focused on the theme ‘Does Hi-Tech Cause Hi-Stress.

The theme has been chosen by ISMA or the International Stress Management Association in the UK. The event focuses on the impacts of technology on life at present. While it is a fact that technology has made such a huge difference in people’s lives, it is also right to debate on both the positive and negative effects that it may cause, along with how it can also be harnessed fully to contribute towards one’s advantage.

What the hosts are hoping is to contribute towards this very important debate through conversations that are meaningful and insightful with international experts on a topic that needs everybody to be concerned with. This is a time where new technologies are emerging and are reshaping the scope, complexity, and the speed of the world. How people will cope and remain healthy despite the fast-changing world that they are faced with may or may not lead to high stress and this is where the point of the discussion during the summit will be focused on.

In an excerpt from the interview, Baroness Greenfield discussed how people seem to have developed an addiction to the mobile phone these days. It has reached a point where the phone has become a part of the body where people need to constantly be holding it, be near it, or not letting it out of sight. Some would even admit to feeling uncomfortable when they see other people holding their mobile phone. As this particular technology becomes more miniaturised and more under the ski, it becomes one of those examples that will extend the notion of dependency and addiction to technology.

Learn more about the summit and listen to the full interview by reading about  Susan Greenfield online here. You can also follow the Susan Greenfield Twitter page here and visit Susan Greenfield SCI page here.