Reducing social media use for a week is linked to improvements in depression, anxiety, and insomnia in young adults, a new ...

Over the past few decades, there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of depression in adolescents and young adults -- and a simultaneous uptick in the inclusion of technology and social ...

Young adults who took just a one-week break from social media showed improvement in depression, anxiety and insomnia symptoms ...

Researchers have developed a deep learning model to detect mental health symptoms and risk factors on social media. Image: Adobe Stock/Deb Berger for Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Social media ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have found a link between use of social media by pre-teens and future depression. The study, published this week in the American Medical ...

As American adolescents experience both declining mental health and rising exposure to social media, parents and researchers alike have tried to better understand the link between the two: Does social ...

New research finds that more social media use may lead to depressive symptoms over time. Credit: FG Trade Latin / E+ via Getty Images For years, research on social media and youth mental health has ...

S1: Welcome in San Diego , it's Jade Hindman. On today's show , we'll tell you about a study which now points to a connection between social media and depression in kids. This is KPBS Midday Edition.

In my previous post, we discovered that the teen mental health crisis might not be as dramatic as The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt's book, claims. Today, we're diving deeper into the research ...