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

Technology can physically change our brains as it becomes an integral part of daily life – but every time we outsource a function, we risk letting our ability atrophy away. What happens when that ...

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 ...

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

The hackneyed expression “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it” is a time-honored truism. It begs the question of what the heck “it” is. “It” is everything perceived by the five senses of touch, sight, ...

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

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...