‘TikTok Brain’ is real – it is eating away at your brain & making children dumber, warns expert
TIKTOK might be "dulling" children's brains as experts warned about the worrying effects on their intellectual development.
According to the spokesperson, users aged 13-17 will automatically be set to a 60-minute daily screen time limit. “Biologically, what we are wired to do is to scan the horizon, have a look , back in the day we had to look out for threats, animals, everything like that. It's a good characteristic to have.
Throughout early neurodevelopment, a process called myelination helps provide the foundation for brain connectivity and supports the emergence of cognitive and behavioural functioning.This means that the speed of signals transmitted between neurons in the brain slows down. "She was doing very well, got good grades at school, but got given a phone by her parents and now spends four or five hours a day on the phone."She's stopped doing homework and gone down.in general are all bad, as many of his patients often come to him to reveal the many things they learn on the video platform at a very young age.have many good effects, but we meet in the end to talk about how parents can supervise this,” Professor Scott explained.
Cairns went on to describe how TikTok can cause more effects on youngsters other than a shortened attention span as they can become more anxious and secluded. Cairns said: “One of my bugbears is when you find something, you click on it and then you go back to the feed and it's disappeared because your feed’s refreshed.“They're working alongside Google in terms of search results. It's going to make it easier for people to just put a keyword to find a particular video they want to see.”“So we can actually now people can create content that is going to be more long form.
And the fact that regular users spend hours more on TikTok than on more traditional social media platforms further exacerbates the issue.Devoted TikTok users describe being unable to focus on lengthier video formats, let alone reading a book or doing homework.Although the platform did add lengthier video forms of up to 10 minutes earlier in 2022 in an effort to vary their advertising palette, advertisers are aware that very short videos remain the most engaging content type for young consumers.
Another 2018 study found that children aged 9-10 who use smartphones for more than seven hours per day experience visible atrophy in their brains.
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