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KiC 20: Psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley on “Reset Your Child’s Brain,” Electronics Use and the Misdiagnosis of Psychiatric Disorders in Children

By Beth Greer on April 20, 2017

Image: KiC 120: Beth Greer interviews psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Dunckley, MD, leading authority on the effects of electronics use and screen time on the developing child’s brain, and author of “Reset Your Child’s Brain.”

My guest is psychiatrist, Dr. Victoria Dunckley, MD, author “Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time.

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If you’ve been listening to my show you know that ADHD, autism and tic disorders are on the rise. Listen to these statistics: Between 2002 and 2005, ADHD medication prescriptions rose by 40 percent. 1 in 10 American kids has been diagnosed with ADHD, and more than half got their diagnosis before age six.

Mental illness in children represents half of all health insurance claims filed in 2012, compared to just 5 to 6 % of claims 20 years ago. 1 in 9 kids has seriously contemplated suicide, and 1 in 8 teens suffer from depression.

What’s going on here? What if this is not some mysterious new plague, but is environmentally caused?

My guest, Dr. Victoria Dunckley, MD, is one of the leading psychiatrists practicing integrative, holistic psychiatry with children. She is a prominent and award-winning voice for greater understanding of the effects of electronic screen media on the developing child’s brain. She practices in Los Angeles and has been a featured expert on the Today show, NBC Nightly News, NPR, and the Investigation Discovery Channel.

Here’s a passage from Dr Dunckley’s  book, Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four-Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen-Time:

“Children aged 2 to 6 now spend 2 to 4 hours a day in front of screens. According to a large‐scale survey, children 8 to 18 spend an average of nearly 7 ½ hours a day in front of a screen.

If we ask ourselves, ‘What has been the biggest change in our children’s environment compared to only one generation ago?’ the answer is not gluten, pesticides, plastics, or food dye (all offenders of mental health, but they do not constitute the biggest change in one generation)… [the answer is] the advent of the Internet, cell phones, and wireless communication. The constant bombardment from electronic screen devices [may be causing] the young brain to short‐circuit.”

In the years that I’ve been doing healthy home consults inside people’s homes, I’ve encountered — without exception — very high EMF fields, either in just one or two rooms in a house or apartment, or the entire place. This is troubling to me. And the children are the ones who are most impacted.

From the baby who wasn’t sleeping because her crib was up against a wall with a refrigerator on the other side, to the boy who had headaches for 2 years and when I measured the fields coming off his air purifier, I was astonished. And his headaches went away the next day when I moved the device 6 feet away from his bed.

Or the little girl who waited for her oatmeal each morning when her mom microwaved it, not realizing the unit was under a countertop and the child was sitting right in front of it. Microwave ovens emit very, very high fields up to 3 feet away.

I use an EMF measuring device and wall filters to help mitigate these fields. You can learn more about this on my website, SuperNaturalMom.com under Recommended products.

In this episode you will hear:

  • How are the brain and body affected by electronics?
  • What is Electronic Screen Syndrome and is it different from video game or tech addiction?
  • How electronics use is contributing to misdiagnosis of psychiatric disorders and overuse of medication in children?
  • How does screen-time specifically affect mood? Focus? Behavior or social skills?
  • What kind of impact does screen-time have vs. the content of what’s being viewed or played, have on these kinds of negative effects?
  • Why interactive screen-time—such as computer use or gaming– is even more harmful than passive screen activities like watching TV?
  • Dr. Dunckley recommends that children undergo a strict three to four week “electronic fast” any time parents and doctors are considering medication treatment or are unsure what’s going on. What does the fast accomplish that simply cutting back on electronics doesn’t?
  • Once the fast is complete, the nervous system reset, and assuming the child is better, then what? How should parents regulate screen-time from there?
  • What does she say to parents who insist it’ll be too hard to orchestrate the electronic fast? What rules are the most important?
  • Parents are continually being told their children need to be tech savvy to succeed in today’s world. Won’t children with limited electronics exposure be left behind?
  • Screen devices are so pervasive now in schools. How do parents address school-related screen-time in terms of the fast, and in general?
  • What are some of the long-term or developmental concerns regarding pervasive use of electronics?
  • What are some of the concerns about ed-tech?
  •  What should pregnant women do to protect the fetus?
  • Aside from simply getting away from screens, what else can people do to counteract screens’ effects?

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