Brain Damage in Children from “Screen Time” – CBS “60 Minutes” Reports on $300M Federal Study on American Kids’ Brains Being Compromised by Screens

According to the 60 Minutes segment discussed in the article below, NIH “scientists” have found a thinning of the cortex in children exposed to screens.  A thinning of the cortex means the brains of these children have undergone premature aging, which the mainstream television mouthpieces refer to as “maturing.”  The mouthpieces try to make light of the finding by commenting on how “fascinating” it is.  And indeed, it is fascinating that these brain damaging, weapons of mass destruction are being put in the hands of children while the talking heads on television show barely a concern.

A thinning of the cortex likely means that these BRAIN DAMAGED children will be predisposed to Alzheimer’s and/or dementia later in life.   Alzheimer’s disease includes the condition known as posterior cortical atrophy which involves the “gradual and progressive degeneration of the outer layer of the brain (the cortex).”  Naturally, our friends over at 60 minutes make no mention of this very real threat although others have had the courage to bring this issue to our attention.  People as young as 30 are now getting dementia.

 

The full 60 Minutes segment can be viewed here under the title “Phones, tablets, and their impact on kids’ brains.”  It’s a totally unimpressive piece but for the fact that they are publicly announcing the brain damage being caused by these radiation-emitting devices.

 

Source Article by BN Frank
CBS “60 Minutes” Reports on $300M Federal Study on American Kids’ Brains Being Compromised by Screens
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/12/cbs-60-minutes-reports-on-300m-federal-study-on-american-kids-brains-being-compromised-by-screens.html

 

Activist Post and sister publication, Natural Blaze, have reported many times about research already proving that kids are being harmed by screen use and exposure.  We’ve also reported about concerns (sometimes desperate) about kids potentially being harmed by screen use and exposure.  And we’ve reported about how exposure to blue light and WiFi (wireless radiation) from screens and other sources of digital, electronic, and wireless technology is harmful to kids as well as adult humans, animals, and nature.

In fact, many media sources have reported about all of this before.  Last night, CBS 60 Minutes reported about a $300M federal study which has already indicated more bad news about kids’ brains and screen use.  Highlights include:

At 21 sites across the country scientists have begun interviewing nine and ten-year-olds and scanning their brains. They’ll follow more than 11,000 kids for a decade, and spend $300 million doing it. Dr. Gaya Dowling of the National Institutes of Health gave us a glimpse of what they’ve learned so far.

We’re sort of in the midst of a natural kind of uncontrolled experiment on the next generation of children.

Did you volunteer for your children to be part of an uncontrolled experiment?  Here’s what they know so far from their study:

1. The brains of 9 and 10 year olds have premature thinning of the cortex.
2. The kids who spend more than two hours a day on screens got lower scores on thinking and language tests.

That’s not comforting.  However, according to Dr. Dowling, until the study is completed, researchers won’t know for sure whether or not screen time is actually addictive or causing other harm.

60 Minutes also reported, “That delay leaves researchers who study technology’s impact on very small children anxious.”

Wow – ya think?  Maybe this is why Silicon Valley parents are increasingly freaking out about their own kids’ use and exposure to screens – even spying on their nannies.

Back to 60 Minutes:

Dr. Dimitri Christakis: In many ways, the concern that investigators like I have is that we’re sort of in the midst of a natural kind of uncontrolled experiment on the next generation of children.

Wow – another reference to this uncontrolled experiment on kids.

Dr. Dimitri Christakis at Seattle Children’s Hospital was the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ most recent guidelines for screen time. They now recommend parents, “avoid digital media use, except video chatting, in children younger than 18 to 24 months.”

Dr. Dimitri Christakis: So what we do know about babies playing with iPads is that they don’t transfer what they learn from the iPad to the real world, which is to say that if you give a child an app where they play with virtual Legos, virtual blocks, and stack them, and then put real blocks in front of them, they start all over.

Anderson Cooper: If they try to do it in real life, it’s as if they’ve never done it before.

Dr. Dimitri Christakis: Exactly. It’s not a transferable skill. They don’t transfer the knowledge from two dimensions to three.

OMG.

Dr. Christakis has also done research that has confirmed that infants are more vulnerable to screen addiction than teenagers because “the experience of making something happen is so much more gratifying to them.”

That might explain these videos:

https://youtu.be/huTOcQUrYLA