Need a reason not to give your child a screen? It may permanently alter their brain during a critical period of development ...

How does the brain decide to approach others? Researchers have found that coordinated brain activity linked to social ...

America’s young people face a mental health crisis, and adults constantly debate how much to blame phones and social media. A new round of conversation has been spurred by Jonathan Haidt’s book “The ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders suggests that teenage girls experiencing depression process ...

If you and your family are happily engaging one another without staring into electronic devices, your brains and ...

Amanda Guyer, professor in the Department of Human Ecology and a faculty researcher at the Center for Mind and Brain, is ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...

Young guppies who were able to see and interact with live fish developed larger brains than guppies who only saw other fish ...

If you remember your pre-teen and teenage years, you can probably recall the intense feelings of anxiety, embarrassment, mood swings, and the desperate need for your peer's approval. More than any ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

Neurodevelopment involves the brain's formation of systems responsible for learning, memory, social skills, and overall function. Critical neurodevelopmental processes such as neurogenesis, synaptic ...