The speakers discuss the concerns surrounding teenagers' mental health and the use of smartphones and social media, emphasizing the need to move beyond measuring screen time and consider how screens are being used to address the positive and negative impacts on mental health.
Ian Sample talks to Dr Amy Orben, who leads the digital mental health programme at the Medical Research Council’s cognition and brain sciences unit, about why the link between teen mental health and social media is so difficult to study, what the current evidence tells us and what advice she gives to parents whose children are entering the online world for the first time. Help support our independent journalism at
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