Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

How Screen Time is Altering Children's Brains

2 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Infants need face-to-face interaction and physical comfort in their first 10 months to develop proper nervous system regulation. Heavy screen exposure replaces this crucial human contact, and the speaker links early screen time to rising autism rates.

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You're seeing 1 year olds at restaurants with a screen there. Right. Number one, they're not actually getting human interaction. They're not getting the back and forth with their parents, understanding facial expressions, verbalization. We're actually negatively changing the brains of kids. And this is co occurring at the same time in the rise of autism. And I think we have to look at what are some of these components because there couldn't be particularly the first 10 months of a child life. Right. That's when the nervous system finds its ability to regulate. That's where kids need to feel safe, they need to be picked up. There's a lot going on.