Nicholas Kardaras – författare

We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends'' houses—and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces—the Glow Kids—are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids—a form of interactive educational tool. Don’t believe it. In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology—more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity—has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person’s developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can. Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents in the back of the book.

In Digital Madness, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, author of the groundbreaking Glow Kids, explores how our devices are driving us mad as revolutionary research reveals technology''s damaging effect on mental health and offers a way out.Dr. Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Digital Madness, he turns his attention to our teens and young adults, examining the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.As we become a more technologically advanced society, young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses, and suicide. Digital Madness reveals how our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion, addictive dependency, and a toxic "digital social contagion" spreading psychiatric disorders.The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain''s architecture into inherently pathological and reactive "black and white" thinking—toxic for politics and society, and symptomatic of several mental disorders. Dr. Kardaras examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining, and monetization.But there is a solution. Using examples from classical philosophy, Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis that encourages resilience, critical thinking, and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose. Digital Madness is a crucial book for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers searching for ways to restore our young people''s mental and physical health.

From the author of the provocative and influential Glow Kids, Digital Madness explores how we’ve become mad for our devices as our devices our driving us mad, as revolutionary research reveals technology''s damaging effect on mental illness and suicide rates—and offers a way out.Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is at the forefront of psychologists sounding the alarm about the impact of excessive technology on younger brains. In Glow Kids, he described what screen time does to children, calling it “digital heroin”. Now, in Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras turns his attention to our teens and young adults and looks at the mental health impact of tech addiction and corrosive social media.In Digital Madness, Dr. Kardaras answers the question of why young people’s mental health is deteriorating as we become a more technologically advanced society. While enthralled with shiny devices and immersed in Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, our young people are struggling with record rates of depression, loneliness, anxiety, overdoses and suicide. What’s driving this mental health epidemic? Our immersion in toxic social media has created polarizing extremes of emotion and addictive dependency, while also acting as a toxic "digital social contagion”, spreading a variety of psychiatric disorders. The algorithm-fueled polarity of social media also shapes the brain''s architecture into inherently pathological and reactive "black and white" thinking—toxic for politics and society, but also symptomatic of several mental disorders. Digital Madness also examines how the profit-driven titans of Big Tech have created our unhealthy tech-dependent lifestyle: sedentary, screen-staring, addicted, depressed, isolated and empty—all in the pursuit of increased engagement, data mining and monetization.But there is a solution. Dr. Kardaras offers a path out of our crisis, using examples from classical philosophy that encourage resilience, critical thinking and the pursuit of sanity-sustaining purpose in people’s lives. Digital Madness is a crucial audiobook for parents, educators, therapists, public health professionals, and policymakers who are searching for ways to restore our young people’s mental and physical health.A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin''s Press