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 ...

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

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

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

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

Social support can be the difference between life and death for children struggling with adverse childhood experiences (like ...

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 ...

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.

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...