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Will be the thing that we hold them for. harmeet dhillon, you are the voice on the right side. thank you for joining us as always. >> thank you, tucker played >> tucker: meanwhile, we have been saying it for years, now they are the hard sign evidence that big tech is harming children. the 60 minutes highlighted research that says that children who use tablets, smartphones, and other screens more than seven hours a day, and that is a lot of kids, believe it or not are developing different brain s...

Changed and not in a good way, affecting emotion, motivation and leading to addiction. >> right. so weve seen studies on long-term drug use. you always hear the argument, well, its only once in a while. >> yeah. >> lets take look what this casual pot use does. significant abnormalities in two brain structures. they looked at density, shape by casual use. the work memory was effected. thats responsible for your decision making and just sort of everyday common sense. the brain regions are associat...

Twice a week still show significant abnormalities in brain structures dealing with motivation and emotion. a physician and professor of public health at johns hopkins university. one of the things that comes up when we talk about marijuana is or is not a lot of research of long-term effects, maybe just physical effects of smoking marijuana. what do you think this study tells us? >> we have been told there is absolutely no downside to your health, and we have been told it is dangerous. it is some...

Happen to have with me a model of the brain. if you look at brain structures, its possible to see postmortem structures, temporal areas next to the temple, they show deteriorating yeas. its possible to determine that people had it postmortem. technology has allowed us to see that earlier and perhaps adopt therapies, implement therapies to help people at greater risk of dementia. >> ill never forget this. >> hard to put it back in. >> but i will never forget hearing you say dont invest in the han...

>> well, you did one interesting experiment. you asked volunteers to imagine kind of mundane events like getting a haircut, and you got some surprising answers. explain that. >> yeah. well, thats actually what started my interest in the optimism bias. i was actually looking to see whether the brain structures that are involved in remembering our past are also involved in imagining the future. but then what happened when i asked participants to imagine events that might happen to them in the futu...

Michael, a man left to die after being stabbed on the street. when i heard this story, it seemed too hard to believe. >> i still cant watch that video without thinking it was staged. its so unreal. and when we look at it, we see a couple of things. like you said, theres the bystander effect and something called the fusional responsibility. weve known about those for a while. i dont think thats what were looking at that in this. i think were seeing the this new phenomenon, this desensation to vio...

Weve known about those for a while. i dont think theres what were looking at in this. this is a new phenomenal, desensization to violence where we are actually changing brain structures in a way where people dont get it when they look at it now if. >> are you saying as a result of what, because of movies, video games? ive heard that before. is that -- is it as simple as that? >> it is as simple and as complex. we pound -- particularly our children -- we pound them 24/7 with what i call prompts. ...

Bystander effect and something called the diffusion of responsibility. weve known about those for a while. i dont think thats what were looking at that in this. i think what were seeing is this new phenomenon, this desensitization to violence, where were changing brain structures, in a way, where people dont get it when they look at it now. >> are you saying as a result of what? because of movies, video games? ive heard that before. is that -- is it as simple as that? >> it is as simple and as c...

Weve known about those for a while. i dont think thats what were looking at that in this. i think were seeing the this new phenomenon, this desensation to violence, where were actually changing brain structures in a way, when people dont get it when they look at it now. >> are you saying as a result of what? because of movies, video games? ive heard that before. is that -- is it as simple as that? >> it is as simple and as complex. we pound, particularly our children, we pound them 24/7 with wha...