You are perhaps living under a rock if you still haven’t heard about Netflix’s psychological crime drama series—Adolescence. While the series, developed by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, is hailed as a technical masterpiece, especially for its continuous one-take style of filming each episode, Adolescence also raises a number of complex issues, especially about the impact of social media on young children’s mental health.
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There has been a surge in nearsightedness cases largely driven by an increased use of digital screens. The researchers said the risk increased significantly from 1-4 hours of screen time and then went up more gradually.
The study led by the University of Michigan Health CS Mott Children’s Hospital, based on a national poll showed that more than 16 per cent parents believe that teenagers should be allowed to receive these types of aesthetic treatments for any reason as long as they have approval from their guardians.
The team from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) found that there is a reduction and partial recovery of almost 5 per cent of grey matter in 94 per cent of the total grey matter volume of the brain, especially in regions linked to social cognition.
Even as children are increasingly getting exposed to screens from a young age, a new study in rats showed that long-term exposure to blue light, emitting from smartphones or tablets, may lead to early puberty. The findings linked the early risk of puberty with accelerated bone growth and bone age caused because of exposure to blue light.
