Saturday, January 23rd, 2021
Special Edition: Screen Time, Our Brains & Solutions
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Has your relationship with technology changed during this pandemic? If you’re a parent, are your kids spending more time than ever before in front of screens?
Today, we’re talking about the potential effects on our brains and well-being of living in a much-more digital world. We discuss the good and bad of what both adults and children are facing now as well as actual withdrawal symptoms we might all feel later.
You’ll hear expert insights and advice for real-life solutions from psychiatrist and addiction expert Dr. Keith Humphreys, as well as Dr. Jenny Radesky, a pediatrician who studies the use of mobile and interactive tech among children.
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Dr. Keith Humphreys
Dr. Humphreys is a professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, an addiction expert and a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama on drug policy.
He is also a Senior Research Career Scientist at the VA Health Services Research Center in Palo Alto and an Honorary Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London. His research addresses the prevention and treatment of addictive disorders, the formation of public policy and the extent to which subjects in medical research differ from patients seen in everyday clinical practice.
Dr. Jenny Radesky
Dr. Radesky is a Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is a Harvard-trained pediatrician whose research focuses on the use of mobile/interactive technology by parents and young children and how this relates to child self-regulation and parent-child interaction.
She was the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statements Media and Young Minds in 2016 and Digital Advertising to Children in 2020.
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