Digital Dementia: How Our Hyper-Connected World is Shrinking Your Brain’s Hippocampus, Fragmenting Your Attention, and Stealing Your Memory
Introduction: The Unseen Cognitive Pandemic In 2023, a groundbreaking study published in JAMA Pediatrics revealed something terrifying to parents and educators alike: adolescents who averaged more than 7 hours of daily recreational screen time showed measurable thinning of the brain’s cortex in areas responsible for critical thinking and reasoning. This wasn’t just about “too much screen time”—it was physical evidence of…