Figure 6.

Excessive online activity and, ultimately, digital addiction inevitably go along with an over exposure to artificial device lights. Each of these two produces clearly identified changes in metabolic rates that negatively affect either the dopamine or the serotonin transmitter pathways in the child’s still developing brain. Anticipated long-term consequences of such early brain deregulation are incommensurable. The working model above takes into account evidence from state-of-the-art research studies reviewed in this paper.