For those of us who don't listen to our doctors, did you know that if a child/adolescent suffers from cell phone addiction, it could have negative implications on brain development? Leading brain imaging researcher Nora D. Volkow, MD of the National Institutes of Health, studied that even if you don't use your cell phone for hours during the day, after 50 minutes of exposure to your cell phone, the radiation emitted increases the activity of your brain. brain cells in the region closest to the cell phone antenna. (Volkow, mercola.com) Cell phones may not seem like a big deal, but they are ruining our health.