Multitasking could cause neurological damage

Time to stop being a multitasking super hero. A newly released study shows our brains tend to act like a zombie when it's dealing with different tasks simultaneously.

The reason, according to MIT's professor Earl Miller, one of the researchers, is that each task only gets the minimal brain power which couldn't lead to anything productive, reported New York Daily News. “People can’t do it very well, and when they say they can, they’re deluding themselves,” he said, adding delusion is something our brains are good at. Multitasking also leads to distraction, which is a key hurdle for learning something new. Professor Russel Poldrack from University of California, found that when people are studying with distractions, like TV, the new information actually goes to a different part of the brain, rather than hippocampus, which stores and recalls information. A busy lifestyle led multitasking is also a reason for bad temper, which can be perceived often in people living in big cities. Dr. Alan Keen with Australia's Central Queensland University said it is because of the extra doses of hormones and adrenaline released by the body to force itself to catch up with everything going around.