Heavy Infant Screen Time Linked To Slower Decision-Making, Higher Anxiety In Teenagers, Study Finds

(12/30, Gu, Subscription Publication) reports that a study by Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research and the National University of Singapore “found that children exposed to high levels of screen time before age two showed brain development changes linked to slower decision-making and higher anxiety in adolescence, adding to concerns about early digital exposure.” The study, published in eBioMedicine, “tracked 168 children for more than a decade, and conducted brain scans on them at three time points.”

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