"Even during school hours, smartphones remain a major part of adolescents' daily lives," Nagata added. "Smartphones can ...

Adolescents spend an average of 70 minutes of their school days on their phones, new research finds. But parents can help ...

Nagata believes the hour-plus that teens spend on their phones at school "inevitably competes with attention to learning." He ...

As a growing number of schools ban phones because of concerns about how they could affect mental health, a new study warns ...

University of Pennsylvania researcher Ran Barzilay is a father of three. His first two children received cellphones before ...

From impulsive decisions to heightened emotions, adolescence can feel unpredictable for both youth and the adults guiding them. A recent virtual workshop helped parents and caregivers better ...

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrating that brain development is not as linear ...

New research has charted the major developmental stages in the brain’s wiring—from early-life pruning to late-life network breakdown—offering a new roadmap for how our brains evolve. Colored diffusion ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...