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

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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, ...