{"id":11439,"date":"2014-05-22T02:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11439"},"modified":"2014-05-22T02:17:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T18:17:28","slug":"british-study-investigates-mobile-phone-effects-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/22\/british-study-investigates-mobile-phone-effects-on-children\/","title":{"rendered":"British study investigates mobile phone effects on  children"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11466\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11466\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kids-with-phones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11466\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kids-with-phones.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kids-with-phones.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/kids-with-phones-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After using his iPhone for nearly half a day playing games and chatting with friends online, Joseph\u00a0Canezal, 12 years old, drops his gadget and starts complaining about his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 9, Joseph already started wearing eye glasses with thick lenses and can no longer read his\u00a0books properly without them.<\/p>\n<p>But eye problems are not only the major effects of mobile phones on children.<\/p>\n<p>This is what a recent major government-commissioned study called the Study of Cognition, Adolescents\u00a0and Mobile Phones (SCAMP) launched by Imperial College London at the commission of the British\u00a0Department of Health, is trying to find out as it seeks to look into the effects of mobile phone usage on the\u00a0developing brains of children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the largest follow-up study of its kind in adolescents worldwide,&#8221; Professor Patrick Haggard, deputy\u00a0director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, said in a report from AFP\u00a0News.<\/p>\n<p>It is considered a \u201cfollow-up\u201d study because a data from the World Health Organization already stated that\u00a0there is no convincing evidence to prove the relation between use of mobile phones and children\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>The data however dates back about 15 years ago which makes it timely for present researchers to\u00a0conduct a follow-up study on the same topic.<\/p>\n<p>London-based children at the age of 11 and 12 will be tested and another test will be conducted two\u00a0years later to measure the development of their cognitive abilities in relation to the use of their mobile\u00a0phones and other wireless gadgets.<\/p>\n<p>To measure the children\u2019s cognitive abilities including memory and attention, the study will also engage\u00a0the students in a classroom-based computerized task.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cognition is essentially how we think, how we make decisions and how we process and recall\u00a0information,&#8221; Dr Mireille Toledano of Imperial College London, the principal investigator on the study said\u00a0in the same AFP report.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from AFP\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After using his iPhone for nearly half a day playing games and chatting with friends online, Joseph\u00a0Canezal, 12 years old, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,37,5],"tags":[2865,3829],"class_list":["post-11439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-health","category-technology","tag-children","tag-mobile-devices","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}