📺 This powerful short film from 10 News+ one of Australia’s leading news programmes shines a light on what we now know about screen time and children’s developing brains.

Many parents already see that excessive screen time often means excessive emotion. But growing scientific evidence suggests the impact may be deeper than behaviour alone.

In a peer-reviewed MRI study published in JAMA Paediatrics (2020), Professor John Hutton and colleagues scanned the brains of 50 children aged 3–5. They found a significant association between higher levels of interactive screen use and lower structural integrity of white matter in the brain, the neural pathways that support language, literacy, and cognitive skills. (Hutton et al., 2020, JAMA Paediatrics.)

Children with higher screen use also scored lower on corresponding behavioural measures, even after controlling for age. The authors conclude that these findings “underscore the need for further research” into the implications for the rapidly developing preschool brain. This is not fringe science; it comes from a major medical journal.

These findings sit alongside a wider body of research linking early and excessive screen use to attention difficulties, sleep disruption, and language delays in early childhood, which is why many paediatricians, educators and psychologists are now calling for a precautionary approach.

At SafeScreens, we are not anti-technology. We are pro-childhood and pro-evidence. We believe that when credible research raises red flags about young children’s brain development, society has a responsibility to listen.

Yours, Brandon Thompson
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