A closer look
If you've been doom-scrolling on the same couch for three years, your neurons are probably begging for mercy. Donald Hebb basically founded neuropsychology by taking lab rats home as pets and realizing they got massively smarter than the rats left in barren metal cages. He proved that an enriched environment—one with toys, puzzles, and social interaction—physically changes the brain, building thicker, denser neural networks. In other words, if you don’t give your brain something interesting to play with, it will systematically dismantle its own processing power.
