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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ella Pickover

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Internet addiction could cause negative changes in teenagers brains study - What They Never Told You

PA Wire

Teenagers should consider setting limits for how much time they spend online each day, academics have said, after a new study found that internet addiction may have detrimental effects on the brains of youngsters.

Internet addiction can cause “negative behavioural and developmental changes” in the brains of adolescents, the experts said.

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