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

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

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

Children between 9 and 13 years of age who spent more time on social media performed worse on tests of reading, memory and ...

Social media could be costing your tween some of their brain power, a new study says. Children between 9 and 13 years of age who spent more time on social media performed worse on tests of reading, ...

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 ...

The team found that family conflict, particularly fighting and frequent criticism between family members, and reputational damage among peers were the strongest predictors of current mental health ...

Spending too much time on social media might be hurting how children think, remember, and learn. A new study published in the ...

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Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...

According to Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, children under two can understand language and even communicate before they ...