internet addiction in adolescence

This educational resource defines the various issues that can arise for teens with access to smartphones, tablets, and other handy computerized devices. It provides ample resources for those who have a problem or know someone who needs their help.

Using high-profile pop culture cases, the author explains the very real dangers of the internet, including over-sharing, sexting, and online addiction, and provides teens and parents with ways to identify and prevent falling into these digital traps.

Many people keep smartphones, tablets, and other handy computerized devices on hand to consult for information and research, keep up with friends and family, and take phone calls. But sometimes all this convenient access goes beyond a handy tool and into an unhealthy addiction. This resource defines the various issues that can arise and provides resources for those who have a problem or know someone who needs their help.

In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology?more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity?has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain?s 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 person?s developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can.