America’s young people face a mental health crisis, and adults constantly debate how much to blame phones and social media. A new round of conversation has been spurred by Jonathan Haidt’s book “The ...

IF YOU FEEL YOUR KIDS ARE SPEAKING A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE FROM YOURS THESE DAYS, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. SOCIAL MEDIA, BRAIN ROT, MEMES AND PHRASES ARE TAKING OVER AND SHAPING HOW KIDS ENGAGE AND INTERACT.

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

The way chemicals in your brain react to notifications and “likes” on social media is similar to a gambling disorder, a clinical neuropsychologist said. The feel-good feelings in the brain come from ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the process differed from the evolution of chimpanzees. For the study, published ...