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<p>Boston College psychology professor, Peter Gray, looked more closely at this data and found that children's mental health is directly related to school attendance. Dr. Gray found that children's psychiatric ER visits drop precipitously in the summer and rise again once school begins. The May spike likely coincides with end-of-school academic and social pressures.</p>
<p>Dr. Gray <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201408/the-danger-back-school" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255, 35, 34); text-decoration: none;">concludes</a>: "The available evidence suggests quite strongly that school is bad for children's mental health. Of course, it's bad for their physical health, too; nature did not design children to be cooped up all day at a micromanaged, sedentary job."</p>
<p>School-related anxiety and depression are real, serious issues that can lead to catastrophe, as evidenced by the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/health/kids-suicide-deaths-increase/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255, 35, 34); text-decoration: none;">rising suicide rate among children</a>. In fact, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6543a8.htm?s_cid=mm6543a8_w" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255, 35, 34); text-decoration: none;">CDC</a>, the suicide rate among 10 to 14 year olds has doubled since 2007. And <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/22/474888854/suicide-rates-climb-in-u-s-especially-among-adolescent-girls" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(255, 35, 34); text-decoration: none;">for girls in that age group</a>, the suicide rate has tripled over the past 15 years.</p>
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The 'Brainternet' project streams brainwaves onto the internet. Essentially, it turns the brain into an Internet of Things (IoT) node on the World Wide Web. IoT refers to connecting any device with an on and off switch to the internet.
Brainternet is the brainchild of Adam Pantanowitz, a lecturer in the Wits School of Electrical and Information Engineering, who supervised fourth-years Jemma-Faye Chait and Danielle Winter in its development.
"Brainternet is a new frontier in brain-computer interface systems. There is a lack of easily understood data about how a human brain works and processes information. Brainternet seeks to simplify a person's understanding of their own brain and the brains of others. It does this through continuous monitoring of brain activity as well as enabling some interactivity," explains Pantanowitz.