Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

But even the lowest users of social media, kids who used it just a single hour a day or less, still scored lower, too, by an ...

Young teens who use cannabis are more likely to be frequent users than people who start later, according to a study in JAMA ...

Increasing social media usage among children has been linked to a decline in cognitive performance. A JAMA study involving ...

Longitudinally increasing patterns of social media use in children was linked to lower cognitive performance 2 years later.

Approximately 20% of American adolescents experience a mental health disorder each year, a number that has been on the rise.

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

Researchers found that even limited social media use can hurt children’s ability to focus and retain information—echoing what ...

Families, educators, and legislators in Sri Lanka have been both excited and concerned by the explosive expansion of digital ...

Learning from a mistake, big or small, is a key part of life and for Minnesota adolescents, researchers and philanthropic voices are emphasizing new ways of thinking which can help teens' brains ...

In case parents needed another reason to police their children's screen time, new research shows that social media use is hurting preteens' memory and reading skills.