{"id":15218,"date":"2024-12-06T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=15218"},"modified":"2024-12-27T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T07:05:08","slug":"brain-rot-becomes-word-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/brain-rot-becomes-word-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;Brain Rot&#8217; Becomes Word of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Judy George<\/p>\n<p>Source Medpagetoday<\/p>\n<p>By many accounts, 2024 was a year of brain health, with researchers reporting ways to improve infant neurodevelopmentopens in a new tab or window and identifying new factors to protect the brainopens in a new tab or window as it ages.<\/p>\n<p>For the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, however, 2024 was the year of brain rot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brain rot&#8221; is a term that describes either the cause or effect of spending hours online viewing trivial information. It communicates concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media, Oxford University Press language experts said.<\/p>\n<p>After first gaining traction on TikTok, its use surged by 230% between 2023 and 2024, they pointed out. Following a public vote involving more than 37,000 people, &#8220;brain rot&#8221; was deemed the 2024 Oxford Word of the Yearopens in a new tab or window.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I find it fascinating that the term brain rot has been adopted by Gen Z and Gen Alpha, those communities largely responsible for the use and creation of the digital content the term refers to,&#8221; President of Oxford Languages Casper Grathwohl said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/generalneurology\/113265\">https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/neurology\/generalneurology\/113265<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Judy George Source Medpagetoday By many accounts, 2024 was a year of brain health, with researchers reporting ways to improve infant neurodevelopmentopens in a new tab or window and identifying new factors to protect the brainopens in a new tab or window as it ages. For the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,128,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-cancer-metabolic-syndrome-og","category-brain","category-news-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15220,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15218\/revisions\/15220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}