He has invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of the differences between paper reading and screen reading....

David Harrington-Smith is a professor of psychiatry who directs the Reading Versus Screening Research Center. Neurological American named him one of the world's top innovators in science and technology, and he frequently appears on The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20 and CNN.

DHS has invented the first brain scan that allows doctors to see the physical evidence of the differences between reading on paper surfaces compared to reading on computer screens and Kindle and iPhone screens. Among his research studies, he now leads a team of neuroscientists who are demonstrating that exposure to ''screen-reading'' -- as Dr Marvin Minsky at MIT Media Lab likes to call it -- causes rapid and profound changes in brain neural circuitry.

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