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How Social Media Use Affects Brain Development in Teens
In January, neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina found that social media use was associated with changes in brain function among adolescents. The researchers scanned the participants' brains each year for three years while the teens were completing an electronic exercise. Kids who looked at their feeds a lot around the age of 12 became more sensitive to possible feedback from their social cohorts over time. Those who checked social media less often were not as sensitive.