LOS ANGELES: For nearly a decade one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Baroness Susan Greenfield, has been warning the internet and computers may be harming children’s brains.
But now in an extraordinary public outburst, the former director of the Royal Institution has been attacked by colleagues at the University of Oxford for ‘misleading’ the public with her claims.
Three leading academics said Baroness Greenfield’s views were not supported by the scientific evidence.
Baroness Greenfield, who has authored more than 200 research papers on Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s Disease and the mechanisms of the brain, has repeatedly drawn a connection between excessive use of digital technology and harmful effects on the brain.