1. Social Media - Emotional and Social Development of Teens
Social media use is widely common around the world today, from television shows to social networking sites to texting among friends. ... Jay Giedd, a chief researcher of the Unit on Brain Imaging in the Child Psychiatry Branch at the NIMH, did a study in which he took a look at the brains of 145 relatively normal children at two-year intervals. ... According to a study by Kaiser Family done in 2010, today's teens spend more than 71/2 hours a day submerged in media (Ahuja). ... Most of those in the study were found to have depression, though it has not been clearly linked as to how or why ...
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