How Does Too Much Screen Time Deal with Children’s Brains?
Much Screen Time Deal with Children’s Brains Early information from a groundbreaking study from the National Institutes of Health ( NIH ), launched in 2018, shows that adolescents who performed screen time exercises for more than two hours a day performed worse on language and thinking tests and played the video game worse, and some children with more than seven hours of screen time a day experienced a decrease in the cerebral cortex, the "We don't yet know what this information means, but we can suspect that screens may suppress certain parts of a teenager's development by limiting their focus and limiting their various methods of research and learning," says Dr. Jennifer F. Cross, pediatrician and master in formative and social pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Kaminsky Children's Hospital. "When young children spend most of their energy drawing with an iPad, a mobile phone or the TV, all of which are particularly engaging, it is usually difficult to en...