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Medical practitioners and mental health professionals have pointed to growing research-based evidence linking prolonged exposure to polluted air with depression, anxiety, poor memory and disrupted cog ...

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

This is an important contribution that largely confirms prior evidence that word recognition - a cornerstone of development - improves across early childhood and is related to vocabulary growth. This ...

Teens spend more than an hour on smartphones on average during school, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

For years, the debate over teens and screens has been defined by uncertainty. Parents, teachers, doctors and policymakers have argued over whether phones and social media were truly harming young ...

Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

The human brain continues to develop for some time after birth, providing an opportunity for experience to influence neural development. In the first few years after birth, both brain volume and ...

Drugs like Adderall and Ritalin appear to help children with ADHD by activating brain areas involved in alertness and ...

Adderall, Ritalin and other stimulants prescribed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder seem to work on brain areas ...