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Prolonged Screen Time May Be Changing Your Child's Brain Structure, Study Finds
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Andrew LaSaneTuesday, 11 December 2018 - 1:20PM
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Sitting your kid down in front of a screen and letting them watch Fortnite streams for hours may buy you some peace and quiet, but according to a new study, it will also physically change the way their brains develop.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have begun a decade-long $300 million study to learn more about the effects of screen time on 11,000 kids. Funded by the National Institute of Health, it will be years before all of the data from the study can be collected and analyzed, but what they have learned so far based on the first batch of brain scans is that kids who spend 7+ hours a day using smartphones, tablets, or playing video games have thinner cerebral cortexes that those who don't. "That's the wrinkly outermost layer of the brain that processes information from the five senses," Dr. Gaya Dowling explained to 60 Minutes, adding that the thinning of the cortex is something th
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