Brain rot refers to a decline in mental and cognitive abilities, often linked to excessive consumption of trivial online content. Brain rot may sound alarming, but the good news is that it’s ...

It’s the way that podcast hosts talk in my ear. I know I’m not alone, because people in my life complain about their own brain-rot speech patterns all the time. I’ve also seen strangers do it.

Brain rot is not a neurological condition that could be diagnosed with a scan, but rather an addiction that required intervention. Fourteen-year-old John (*name changed) from Bengaluru was ...

Slowly, although not imperceptibly, short-form internet content has become not only the norm, but in many ways a dominant method of how people consume anything from memes to news and even music.

Oxford University Press declared “brain rot” to be its “Word of the Year.” Apparently, brain rot indicates the negative effect on our cognitive abilities when subjected to the endless ...

Pope Francis made the remark at the Jubilee of the World of Communications in Rome, an event which attracted around 9,000 journalists and writers from 138 countries, both in person and online.

The looming ban on TikTok in the US presents a watershed moment for those trapped in a dopamine loop of doom-scrolling “brain rot,” psychologists have said. Brain rot, the colloquial term for ...

Brain rot is defined as "the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content ...

As TikTok quickly made its comeback after a brief ban, the ability to brain rot is as available as ever. Snow days make it easy to fall victim to mindless scrolling and lying in bed for hours. Before ...