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Impact of Childhood Use of Tablets/ Screens – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #994 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #994 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Unknown Credit: Marta Wave Credit: Eze Joshua Credit: Amina Filkins This blogpost is inspired by the study published in JAMA Pediatrics on August 12, 2024. It is an original investigation, and the authors are Caroline Fitzpatrick PhD, Pedro Mario Pan PhD, Annie Lemieux, MSc; et al. Other studies are also quoted. Links at the end. A New Study Question: Do higher levels of early-childhood tablet use undermine emotional regulation, or is the other way round?  Findings: In this study, child tablet use at age 3.5 years was associated with more expressions of anger and frustration by the age of 4.5 years. Child proneness to anger/ frustration ...

A Test of Patience – Part 1 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #557 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #557. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Dorie Clarke, the founder of Recognizes Experts – RExers – a community of highly accomplished, wonderful people, has published a new book in September 2021. This is her fourth book, and it is titled ‘The Long Game – How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world’. I highly recommend it. Long-term thinking is becoming a challenge because the focus has largely shifted to short-term thinking and actions. The book therefore is need of the time.    One major reason for losing sight of long-term thinking is that patience has become a scarce commodity and the lack of it has...