Spending too much time on screens can harm brain function and mental health. It may cause sleep disturbances, reduced attention span, memory issues, and higher stress or anxiety levels. Overexposure ...

We spend a lot of time glued to our digital devices. Health experts say, on average, kids ages 8 to 18 years old spend about seven and a half hours a day on a screen, whether it's for fun or education ...

The real question is not whether technology changes the brain – because it does – but how those changes happen and whether ...

It has long been known that the brain preferentially processes information that we focus our attention on—a classic example ...

While there is no direct scientific measure that equates brain damage from these videos with that from alcohol or tobacco, ...

Living in the digital age, screens have become a huge part of our everyday lives. Whether it's for leisure viewing at home or ...

It’s easy to think that a few minutes less sleep won’t make much difference. But research shows that, during adolescence, ...

Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and ...

Early on, Nedergaard and Iliff, a glial cell biologist and a vascular physiologist, respectively, hypothesized that waste ...

Inducing acute stress reliably under controlled conditions remains a major challenge in scientific research. Finding paradigms that elicit stress reliably and remain ecologically valid is difficult.

For the first time, scientists have mapped how nearly an entire mammalian brain lights up as decisions are made. The massive ...