Your cover story [July 23] highlighted the creative art produced by talented young people today using digital media and did acknowledge that “it will take your life over if you let it, but it’s not real …”
But there’s a physiological side to the effects of social media on the developing or developed brain that needs to be considered. Young children are at special risk. A baby’s brain more than doubles during the first year of life. The faster cells are growing, the greater the possibility that they can take up mistakes.
Also, there is growing evidence of addiction to the devices that are physiological and not merely social. Just try taking one away from a cranky toddler who is glued to a screen.
Myelin is a fatty protective sheath that surrounds brain cells called neurons. Myelination is the process of acquiring this protection that takes place throughout childhood and adolescence and is not actually complete until the mid-20s and a little bit later in young males than females.
Low-powered but erratic pulses of microwave radiation from cell phones and other digital devices have been shown to interfere with myelin formation. This could increase the lifetime risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and other problems such as hearing deficits and tinnitus – chronic ringing in the ears. Full story...
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But there’s a physiological side to the effects of social media on the developing or developed brain that needs to be considered. Young children are at special risk. A baby’s brain more than doubles during the first year of life. The faster cells are growing, the greater the possibility that they can take up mistakes.
Also, there is growing evidence of addiction to the devices that are physiological and not merely social. Just try taking one away from a cranky toddler who is glued to a screen.
Myelin is a fatty protective sheath that surrounds brain cells called neurons. Myelination is the process of acquiring this protection that takes place throughout childhood and adolescence and is not actually complete until the mid-20s and a little bit later in young males than females.
Low-powered but erratic pulses of microwave radiation from cell phones and other digital devices have been shown to interfere with myelin formation. This could increase the lifetime risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and other problems such as hearing deficits and tinnitus – chronic ringing in the ears. Full story...
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