Reset Your Child’s Brain
Victoria L. Dunckley, MD’s new book Reset Your Child’s Brain informs readers about the downsides of children’s use of electronic screens and explains electronic screen syndrome (ESS), a condition in which the nervous system of the user becomes overstimulated from too much screen time. Dunckley coined the term to describe a syndrome of dysregulation that encompasses a variety of symptoms she saw in children that tended to be resolved once the use of video games and computers was temporarily eliminated. She found that ESS occurs because certain brain mechanisms begin to malfunction from hyperarousal.