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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
Description: In the third podcast of this series, âBrain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds,â host Dr. Karyne Messina, psychologist, psychoanalyst and author talked about the problems that can emerge in Erik Eriksonâs Identity versus Identity Diffusion stage of development along with Dr. Harry Gill, a psychiatrist who has a PhD in neuroscience. The two mental health professionals discussed major difficulties they see in their young patients when they are exposed to too much screen time.For one thing, excessive screen time during this stage of development can have significant effects on pruning which leads to...