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THE GUARDIAN: Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?
Apr. 21, 2025 The argument that we are becoming less intelligent draws from several studies. Some of the most compelling are those that...
TRENDS IN PSYCHOLOGY: Digital Psychology: Introducing a Conceptual Impact Model and the Future of Work
Apr. 21, 2025 There is a massive digital transformation occurring across our societies, which means that our lives are shifting more and...
THE LANCET: School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use (SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study
Apr. 16, 2025 Background Poor mental health in adolescents can negatively affect sleep, physical activity and academic performance, and...
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: Problematic social media use and relationship to mental health characteristics in youth from the Texas Youth Depression and Suicide Research Network (TX-YDSRN)
Apr. 16, 2025 Highlights Analyzes the link between social media use and mental health in depressed youth 40.3Â % reported problematic...
PNAS NEXUS: Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being
Apr 15, 2025 Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time. Despite the benefits of this technology,...
BMC MEDICINE: Smartphone screen time reduction improves mental health: a randomized controlled trial
Apr 10, 2025 Christoph Pieh , Elke Humer , Andreas Hoenigl , Julia Schwab , Doris Mayerhofer , Rachel Dale & Katja Haider  Abstract...
NATURE MEDICINE: Prediction of mental health risk in adolescents
Apr 8, 2025 Prospective prediction of mental health risk in adolescence can facilitate early preventive interventions. Here, using...
News Medical: AI-POWERED THERAPY CHATBOT SHOWS SIGNIFICANT MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS
Apr 8, 2025 Dartmouth researchers conducted the first clinical trial of a therapy chatbot powered by generative AI and found that the...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Social Media and Youth Mental Health
Mar. 15, 2025 Social media presents a meaningful risk of harm to youth, while also providing benefits The types of use and content...
Association of Habitual Checking Behaviors on Social Media With Longitudinal Functional Brain Development
Mar. 15, 2025 Key Points Question  Is adolescents’ frequency of checking behaviors on 3 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram,...
CNN _ Ex-Meta executive: ‘People deserve to know what this company is really like’
Mar. 12, 2025 Meta is once again facing allegations from a former employee that a growth-at-all-costs culture has caused offline harm. A...
THE GUARDIAN: It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human
Mar. 9, 2025 A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about it I...
Screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents: prospective findings from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
Mar. 9, 2025 Purpose This study aimed to examine prospective associations between screen time and manic symptoms in early adolescents,...
NEW YORK POST: Excessive phone and screen use tied to manic symptoms in pre-teens, study finds
Mar. 9, 2025 A recent study from the University of California, San Francisco, indicates that pre-teens with greater exposure to certain...
UNITED NATIONS: YOUT MENTAL HEALTH Project
Mar. 9, 2025 The Global youth mental health awareness (the project) was developed in response to the growing need to communicate and...
Declining Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among Young Adults in Six English-speaking Countries
Mar. 4, 2025 Jean Twenge  & David G. Blanchflower We report eleven studies that show declines in life satisfaction and happiness among...
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