Medically reviewed by Geralyn Dexter, PhD, LMHC In 2024, "brain rot" was named Oxford's Word of the Year, reflecting concerns ...

Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2024 was Brain Rot. Yikes. That’s a sobering commentary on the state of our society. Here’s how I think of brain rot: ...

On the official Oxford University Press website we learn that brain rot is “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental ...

This Word of the Year (WOTY) has been chosen every year since at least 1990. According to Dictionary.com, “These words serve ...

According to Physician's Weekly, recent studies have linked excessive online content consumption to cognitive and mental ...

“Oxford University Press’s 2024 word of the year is … ‘brain rot.’ The term is not new. Henry David Thoreau first used it in his 1854 book Walden to refer to the devaluing of complex ideas in favor of ...

In their December 2 announcement, Oxford defined “brain rot” as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or ...

It says something about the past year when the people who put out the Oxford Dictionary chose “brain rot” as the words of ...