Dec. 2025 In recent decades, knowledge about the brain has transformed radically, enabling neuroscience to venture into domains traditionally reserved for the humanities and social sciences. This expansion has prompted critiques regarding the potential implications and consequences of neuroscience’s engagement with domains such as education, law, politics, and the self. Building on these concerns, this study seeks to foster a dialogue between two onto-epistemological perspect

Dec. 2025 Joseph M. Pierre, MD; Ben Gaeta, MD; Govind Raghavan, MD; and Karthik V. Sarma, MD, PhD ABSTRACT Background: Anecdotal reports of psychosis emerging in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot use have been increasingly reported in the media. However, it remains unclear to what extent these cases represent the induction of new-onset psychosis versus the exacerbation of pre-existing psychopathology. We report a case of new-onset psychosis in the setting o

Dec. 2025 Per Carlbring, Gerhard Andersson Background: Reports of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots fueling delusions in vulnerable users have popularized the notion of “AI psychosis”. We argue the risk is not unprecedented. Individuals with psychosis have long incorporated books, films, music, and emerging technologies into their delusional thinking. Methods: We review historical parallels, summarize why large language models (LLMs) may reinforce psychotic thinking via s

Dec. 2025 Samson Nivins, PhD; Michael A. Mooney, PhD; Joel Nigg, PhD; Torkel Klingberg, PhD BACKGROUND Children spend significant amount of time using digital media (DM), and longer exposure may increase attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related symptoms, although findings are mixed. We investigated longitudinal association between different types of DM use and ADHD-related symptoms in school-aged children, accounting for genetic predisposition and socioeconomic

Dec. 2025 Eric Hitz , Mingmin Feng , Radu Tanase , René Algesheimer , Manuel S. Mariani Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the proliferation of artificial agents in social contexts, ranging from education to online social media and financial markets, among many others. The increasing rate at which artificial and human agents interact makes it urgent to understand the consequences of human-machine interactions for the propagation of new ideas, products, and

Nov. 2025 Yamin Shen Introduction: Digital reading has become a common learning activity; however, the empirical understanding of how attentional interference affects comprehension remains limited. Methods: This study employed a meta-analytic approach to synthesize 32 empirical studies investigating the effects of attentional distractors in digital environments. The analysis focused on the overall comprehension effects of attentional distraction in online reading contexts,

Nov. 2025 Shirin Abdallah Alimour Mohammad Alrabeei The accelerating integration of digital technologies with human experience has precipitated profound cognitive, emotional, and behavioral transformations, giving rise to emergent psychopathologies that remain insufficiently addressed by traditional diagnostic taxonomies. This study introduces a novel reconceptualization of mental health in the digital era, delineating four original diagnostic categories: Cognitive Fragmentat

Nov. 2025 Shuo Xing , Junyuan Hong , Yifan Wang , Runjin Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Ananth Grama , Zhengzhong Tu , Zhangyang Wang We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To causally isolate data quality, we run controlled experiments on real Twitter/X corpora, constructing junk and reversely controlled datasets via two orthogonal operationalizations: M1 (engagement degr

Nov. 2025 Julia Eremenko Vladimir Kosonogov Vladislav Aksiotis Victoria Moiseeva Anastasia Obukhova Alisa Godovanets Oksana Zinchenko Vasily Klucharev Anna Shestakova Introduction: Emotions play a crucial role in shaping consumer experiences and decisions. Neurophysiological tools offer objective markers of emotional reactions in multisensory environments, where positive valence promotes approach behavior and negative valence fosters avoidance. Methods: We applied the Osgoo

Nov. 2025 Tanya Horeck This essay explores the strong affective appeal of Netflix’s Adolescence for its adult audiences. It investigates the emotional response to the series, arguing that it feeds into wider discontent over the risks of smartphone usage for young people. Examining the significance of universalised white boyhood in Adolescence , the essay interrogates the cultural stakes of the imagined scenario at its heart – of violent, disenfranchised white boys, incapaci

Nov. 2025 Kathryn Claire Higgins This article theorizes how far-right cultural politics leverage hypothetical injuries and imaginary futures, often through media, to justify agendas of social violence – a technique I term victim could . Victimcould is both a representational achievement (alive within the cultural repertoires of the far-right) and a justificatory logic (supporting the cultural legitimacy of far-right political agendas). Working with the concept of vulnerabilit

Nov. 2025 Rachel Montel Hayes Christopher E. Mason John J. Miller The etiology of psychiatric disorders is complex, involving both genetic and environmental factors with emerging evidence suggesting that epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, histone modifications, and non-coding RNA regulation, significantly contribute to mental health. The epigenome influences the development of psychiatric disorders and human behavior and may be considered in clinical observa

Nov. 2025 Abstract Background: Social media (SM) platforms have become increasingly prevalent in adolescents' lives, and concerns have arisen regarding their potential contribution to depression. This study examined whether excessive SM use contributes to rising adolescent depression rates and evaluated potential mitigation strategies. Methods and findings: We developed an individual-based microsimulation model of 18.6 million French adolescents born 1990-2012, tracking depre

Oct. 2025 Yuhong Qiu , Liuye Chen , Chenlyu Xu , Xinlin He , Qingyao Zong , Wen Chen , Fang Liu Highlights Social exclusion increases...

Oct. 2025 David M. Berry This paper develops a critical theory of artificial intelligence, within a historical constellation where...

Oct. 2025 Federica Angelini Gianluca Gini Introduction: Digital stress, resulting from expectations of online availability, can increase...

Oct. 2025 Eun Jung Choi, Ella Christiaans, Emma G. Duerden Highlights Vulnerable adolescents had much higher anxiety and...

Sept. 2025 Md Kamrul Hasan In today’s world, social media and constant connectivity are central to daily life. Recent data suggest that...

Sept. 2025 Benjamin Zablotsky, PhD; Amanda E. Ng, PhD, MPH; Lindsey I. Black, MPH; Gelila Haile, MPH; Jonaki Bose, MS; Jessica R. Jones,...

Sept. 2025 Muhammad Umar Artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have advanced rapidly in creating realistic synthetic images, videos,...