Highlights
• More hours of screen time are associated with lower well-being in ages 2 to 17.
• High users show less curiosity, self-control, and emotional stability.
• Twice as many high (vs. low) users of screens had an anxiety or depression diagnosis.
• Non-users and low users did not differ in well-being.
• Associations with well-being were larger for adolescents than for children.
“Your kid is not weak-willed because he can’t get off his phone,” Brown says. “Your kid’s brain is being engineered to get him to stay on his phone.”
The headquarters of Boundless Mind looks as if it were created by a set designer to satisfy a cultural cliché. The tech startup is run out of a one-car garage a few blocks from California’s Venice Beach. On the morning I visited, in March, it was populated by a […]
“..positive social stimuli will similarly result in a release of dopamine, reinforcing whatever behavior preceded it. Cognitive neuroscientists have shown that rewarding social stimuli—laughing faces, positive recognition by our peers, messages from loved ones—activate the same dopaminergic reward pathways. Smartphones have provided us with a virtually unlimited supply of social stimuli, both positive and negative. Every notification, whether it’s a text message, a “like” on Instagram, or a Facebook notification, has the potential to be a positive social stimulus and dopamine influx.”
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..researchers found that the addicted teenagers showed more signs and indications of depression, anxiety, insomnia, and impulsivity, according to Dr. Seo. One chemical the researchers looked for changes in before and after the cognitive behavioral therapy was gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA). GABA is a neurotransmitter that slows or speeds up brain signals and regulates anxiety. They also examined the glutamate-glutamine (Glx) activity in the participants, which causes neurons to become more electrically excited.
If you’ve thought that teens who are constantly online are damaging their developing minds, you may be right. A recent study by Korean scientists discovered that young people addicted to their smartphones or the internet have brain chemical imbalances. The research team led by Dr. Hyung Suk […]
When kids and parents don’t rely on constant communication, they instead must plan for the day ahead of time, and this can help kids to develop valuable executive-functioning skills.
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Addiction is the term used to refer to loss of control over one’s behaviours, usually with negative consequences.
… high use rate lead to impulsiveness, mounting anxiety prior to using the device, loss of control, withdrawal symptoms, financial issues, damaged relationships, emotional stress and falling literacy.
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Teens fixated on their smartphones experience changes to their brain chemistry that mirror those prompted by addiction, a new study suggests. Kids who compulsively used the internet or fiddled with their phones tended to have increased neurotransmitter activity […]
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The last few decades have seen the rapid acceleration of technology and social change. The emergence of the internet, smart phones, Facebook, Twitter and other social media technologies have fundamentally altered the social fabric and the ways we relate. In the words of Tom Friedman, the world is flat and hyper-connected. While the hyper-connected, flat world creates many opportunities, it also potentially creates chaos, flux and danger, which is a recipe for stress.
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