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![]() She is concerned that not enough attention is being paid to evidence that computer use is changing young people’s brains. The neuroscientist has previously warned there could be a link between children’s poor attention spans and the use of computers and social-networking websites. ‘We need to do more experiments and we need to invest more money in research and have more studies like this.’ She said: ‘It shows there’s a very clear relationship between the number of years these young people have been addicted to the internet and changes in their brains. He said: ‘It strikes me as a terrible shame that our society requires photos of brains shrinking in order to take seriously the common-sense assumption that long hours in front of screens is not good for our children’s health.’īaroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, described the results as ‘very striking’. In Britain, children spend an average of five hours and 20 minutes a day in front of TV or computer screens, according to estimates by the market-research agency Childwise.ĭr Aric Sigman, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, described the Chinese research as a ‘wake-up call’. 'Wake-up call': Dr Aric Sigman said it was a shame that we needed photos of brains to realise that sitting in front of a screen is not good for children's health
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