A new study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology provides evidence that different types of adversity in ...

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 ...

There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

Increasing use of social media throughout early adolescence is associated with lower performance in specific aspects of cognitive function.

What Is Social and Emotional Development? There are five major social and emotional “issues” that teens deal with during their adolescent years. These include: Establishing an identity. This has been ...

For the parents of a teenager, adolescence can be a challenging time. But to a brain scientist, it's a marvel. "I want people to understand that adolescence is not a disease, that adolescence is an ...

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In one of the first long-term studies on adolescent neural development and technology use, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report adolescents' habitual checking of ...

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