{"id":2924,"date":"2025-06-30T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/screens-shrink-childrens-brains\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:05:09","slug":"screens-shrink-childrens-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/30\/screens-shrink-childrens-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Screens shrink children&#039;s brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-30 14:05:07<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Children who are constantly glued to screens have smaller brains.<BR><br \/>\nMRI scans of preschoolers show thinner grey matter in areas tied to language, memory and empathy &#8211; with heavy screen users falling behind in reading and attention skills.<BR><br \/>\nEven toddlers with three hours of daily screen time can lag behind when it comes to vocabulary and pre-school readiness.<BR><br \/>\nLeading paediatricians fear that real-world play is being removed from children&#8217;s lives in favour of screens and have warned that tots who spend seven to eight hours fixated on screens per day are at risk of tunnel vision and concentration issues.<BR><br \/>\nThe stiffening of eye muscles can lead to behaviour problems that are often confused with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).<BR><br \/>\nSir Cary Cooper, a psychology professor at the University of Manchester, said: &#8220;Children are using these devices and they are not learning social and non-verbal skills that we pick up from interacting, face-to-face, with other people.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-30 14:05:07 Children who are constantly glued to screens have smaller brains. MRI scans of preschoolers show thinner grey matter in areas tied to language, memory and empathy &#8211; with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}