Protecting children from social media harms requires stronger safeguards, digital literacy, parental guidance, and healthy ...

Adolescents who spend at least two hours a day on social media are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and poorer ...

Adolescence represents a critical period for the maturation of neural circuits underlying social cognition, emotional regulation and reward processing. During this time, the social brain—comprising ...

During adolescence, the prefrontal cortex (PFC) undergoes dramatic reorganization. PFC development is profoundly influenced by the social environment, disruptions to which may prime the emergence of ...

The earlier preteens are on social media the more likely they are to experiment with substances, a new study suggests.

Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence, according to the results of a newly published study by a UB ...

Feeling lonely, out of place, and disconnected are some of cyberbullying's harmful consequences that point to a deeper human ...

Social experience sculpts the teenage brain. Source: iStock/pixelfit Humans are fundamentally social, and perhaps never more so than in adolescence when hanging out with friends is the top priority ...

Increased social media use in early adolescence is linked to higher depressive symptoms a year later, suggesting a one-way relationship. The study provides longitudinal data on younger adolescents, ...

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.