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  2. Etchells, an avid gamer, remembers reading a headline in 2011 that declared: Computer games leave children with 'dementia' warns top neurologist. “That doesn’t make sense,” he thought ...

  3. Problematic smartphone use - Wikipedia

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    In particular, there is increasing evidence that mobile phones are being used as a tool by children to bully other children. [ 51 ] There is a large amount of research on mobile phone use, and its positive and negative influence on the human's psychological mind, mental health and social communication.

  4. An Iowa pediatrician's call to action on smartphones and ...

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    As a community, we must adopt new norms around social media and smartphones to reduce the cancerous risk they pose to our children. Facebook became mainstream in 2006, and smartphones ubiquitous ...

  5. The debate: Should smartphones be banned for under 16s? - AOL

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    How much are smartphones harming children and what should we do about it? BBC InDepth hosts a debate between a campaigner and an academic. The debate: Should smartphones be banned for under 16s?

  6. Psychological effects of Internet use - Wikipedia

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    Suicide is the third leading cause of death for youth between the ages of 10 and 24. Cyber bullying is rapidly increasing. Some writers have suggested monitoring and educating children from a young age about the risks associated with cyber bullying. [38] Children use, on average, 27 hours of internet a week and it is on the increase.

  7. Wireless device radiation and health - Wikipedia

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    They involve recommendations such as the minimization of usage, the limitation of use by at-risk population (e.g., children), the adoption of phones and microcells with as low as reasonably practicable levels of radiation, the wider use of hands-free and earphone technologies such as Bluetooth headsets, the adoption of maximal standards of ...

  8. Screens and teens: How phones broke children’s brains - AOL

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    Some 97 per cent of children have a smartphone by the age of 12 (Getty/iStock) The reason this is so pressing isn’t simply that tweens and teens aren’t paying proper attention in class.

  9. Childhood dementia - Wikipedia

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    Childhood dementia is an umbrella group of rare, mostly untreatable neurodegenerative disorders that show symptoms before the age of 18. These conditions cause progressive deterioration of the brain and the loss of previously acquired skills such as talking, walking, and playing.