{"product_id":"books-screen-damage-by-michel-desmurget","title":"Screen Damage","description":"All forms of recreational digital consumption – whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs – have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13, it’s more than 7 hours a day. Added up over the first 18 years of life, this is the equivalent of almost 30 school years, or 15 years of full-time employment.   Most media experts do not seem overly concerned about this situation: children are adaptable, they say, they are ‘digital natives’, their brains have changed and screens make them smarter. But other specialists – including some paediatricians, psychiatrists, teachers and speech therapists – dispute these claims, and many parents worry about the long-term consequences of their children’s intensive exposure to screens.   Michel Desmurget, a leading neuroscientist, has carefully weighed up the scientific evidence concerning the impact of the digital activities of our children and adolescents, and his assessment does not make for happy reading: he shows that these activities have significant detrimental consequences in terms of the health, behaviour and intellectual abilities of young people, and strongly affect their academic outcomes.   A wake-up call for anyone concerned about the long-term impacts of our children’s over-exposure to screens.   Also available as an audiobook.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673691250961,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781509546404.jpg?v=1781527670","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-screen-damage-by-michel-desmurget","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}