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This is your brain on social media

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Apr 17 2018
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Anne-Laura van Harmelen and Susanne Schweizer publish their debut elf blog on a recent narrative review of social media use and brain development during adolescence published in Nature Communications.

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Tagged with: brain development, child and adolescent, digital communication, digital mental health, facebook, functional neuroimaging, narrative review, Nature Communications, peer influence, problematic facebook use, social acceptance, social media, social rejection, twitter, youth mental health

Just how problematic is ‘Problematic Facebook Use’?

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Jan 11 2018
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Lisa Marzano and Andrea Cipriani explore a new systematic review and meta-analysis about the associations between problematic Facebook use, psychological distress and well-being among adolescents and young adults.

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Tagged with: adverse effects, facebook, harm, heterogeneity, internet addiction, Journal of Affective Disorders, meta-analysis, problematic facebook use, social media, systematic review, youth mental health
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