Soap Operas Can Damage Your Brain, Research Claims

  It might surprise you that something as seemingly harmless as a soap opera could have the ability to damage an organ as complex as the brain. However, it seems it could be true. This assertion comes from Erwin Höllinger, professor and neurologist at the University of Salzburg (Austria). Soap operas are series of the melodramatic genre. They’re produced in large quantities and tend to have huge audiences. In fact, they make up a multi-million dollar industry. Furthermore, soap operas are used as vehicles for cultural penetration. These programs are characterized by the exaggeration of emotions and the dramatization of…