We’ve never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that ...

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

Excessive screen time in childhood is associated with changes in the brain, particularly in regions involved in attention and self-control.

NEW research from a major USA child-development study suggests that daily social media use, though often dismissed as harmless, may contribute to small but measurable increases in inattention symptoms ...

Social media could be costing your tween some of their brain power, a new study says. Children between 9 and 13 years of age who spent more time on social media performed worse on tests of reading, ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Increases in social media use during early adolescence were linked with lower performance scores measuring cognitive function. Differences were "modest but consistent" in key areas like reading, ...

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young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...