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Glow kids : how screen addiction is hijacking our kids--and how to break the trance / Nicholas Kardaras, Ph.D.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 278 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250097996 (hardcover)
  • 1250097991 (hardcover)
Subject(s):
Contents:
The trouble with tech -- Invasion of the glow kids -- Brave new e-world -- Digital drugs and the brain -- Interview with Dr. Doan : neuroscientist and recovering video gamer -- The big disconnect : texting and social media -- Clinical disorders and the glow kids effect -- Monkey see, monkey do : mass media effects -- Video games and aggression : the research -- Ripped from the headlines : real cases of video game-influenced violence -- The Newtown massacre : video game psychosis -- Etan Patz and the end of innocence -- and outdoor play -- Follow the money : screens and the educational industrial complex -- It's an e-world -- The solution : escaping Plato's e-cave -- Appendix. Does my child have a screen or tech addiction problem?.
Summary: "In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology-- more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity-- has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain's pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person's developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can"-- Amazon.com.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 616.8584 K18 Available 33111008456226
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses--and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces--the Glow Kids--are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids--a form of interactive educational tool.

Don't believe it.

In Glow Kids , Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology--more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity--has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain's pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression,and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person's developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can.

Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents in the back of the book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The trouble with tech -- Invasion of the glow kids -- Brave new e-world -- Digital drugs and the brain -- Interview with Dr. Doan : neuroscientist and recovering video gamer -- The big disconnect : texting and social media -- Clinical disorders and the glow kids effect -- Monkey see, monkey do : mass media effects -- Video games and aggression : the research -- Ripped from the headlines : real cases of video game-influenced violence -- The Newtown massacre : video game psychosis -- Etan Patz and the end of innocence -- and outdoor play -- Follow the money : screens and the educational industrial complex -- It's an e-world -- The solution : escaping Plato's e-cave -- Appendix. Does my child have a screen or tech addiction problem?.

"In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology-- more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity-- has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain's pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person's developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can"-- Amazon.com.

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