{"id":417943,"date":"2026-04-30T19:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=417943"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:43:01","slug":"camus-study-highlights-frightening-damage-to-the-brains-of-device-focused-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=417943","title":{"rendered":"Camus study highlights frightening damage to the brains of device focused children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This MRI study on young kids just exposed something terrifying: They scanned the brains of 60 children aged 3\u20135 \u2014 including 5-year-old Rose \u2014 and found interactive screen time is causing measurable loss of white matter in their developing brains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even just 2 hours a day is linked to impaired neural connectivity, language, and literacy development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Mike Nagel (neuroscientist and father) said his first reaction was simply: \u201cWow\u2026 I was not anticipating seeing anything like that.\u201d We\u2019re physically changing children\u2019s brains before they even start school \u2014 and the damage is visible on scans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"270\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 480 \/ 270;\" width=\"480\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/rwFK5aBPTNyqhON5.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This one actually unsettled me. I\u2019ve always suspected too much screen time was bad, but seeing real white matter loss in toddlers hits different. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents of little ones \u2014 has this kind of research changed how much screen time you allow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even just 2 hours a day is linked to impaired neural connectivity, language, and literacy development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":417947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,4561],"tags":[20184,20185],"class_list":["post-417943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-children","tag-camus","tag-mri-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417946,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417943\/revisions\/417946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/417947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}