New Research: Screen Time Is Literally Changing
Children’s Brains
The National Institutes of Health recently began a $300-million study to examine the effects of screen time on developing brains.
- The study uses MRI scans to track the changes in the brains of children who use screens at varying amounts.
- Early results revealed that kids who use screens for more than 7 hours per day show physical changes to the brain in the form of premature thinning of the cortex.
- It will likely be decades before scientists truly understand how smartphones and other technologies affect the brain.
The NIH data also showed that kids who spend more than
two hours a day on screens score worse on language and reasoning tests.
The study — which involves scans of the brains of 4,500
children — eventually aims to show whether screen time is addictive, but
researchers need several years to understand such long-term outcomes.
The academy now recommends parents “avoid digital media
use — except video chatting — in children younger than 18 to 24 months.”
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