Extract from Lords debate on Children and Young People: Digital Technology - Jan 17
Friday, 18 January 2019 08:45
Lord Ramsbotham (CB):...My second observation is based on my
chairmanship of a criminal justice and acquired brain injury
interest group, which has a particular interest in the effects of
such injuries on the developing brains of children and young
people. Possibly influenced by evidence of a possible link
between brain tumours and excessive use of mobile phones,
there are those who suspect that too much digital technology use
may cause damage to the growing brain. Hard evidence is...Request free trial
(CB):...My
second observation is based on my chairmanship of a criminal
justice and acquired brain injury interest group, which has a
particular interest in the effects of such injuries on the
developing brains of children and young people. Possibly influenced
by evidence of a possible link between brain tumours and excessive use of mobile
phones, there are those who suspect that too much digital
technology use may cause damage to the growing brain. Hard evidence
is impossible to come by, largely owing to the technology being
comparatively new. Two years ago I remember being shown two scans,
one of a 10 year-old’s brain taken 10 years ago and one taken that
year. You did not have to be an expert to see that there were
differences, which might be because they were different people.
Experts admitted that they could not interpret the difference or
what it meant in the long term, but it was sufficiently worrying
for them to say that, while it was too early to predict any
long-term implications, excessive use of digital technology could
not be ruled out as a possible cause...
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