Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids - and How to Break the Trance

From addiction expert Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a startling argument that technology has profoundly affected the brains of childrenand not for the better. Weve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' housesand the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing facesthe Glow Kidsare multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kidsa form of interactive educational tool. Dont believe it. In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technologymore specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquityhas profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brains pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young persons developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can. Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents in the back of the book.