Researchers said habitual social media checking in teens is impacting their brain development at a time when they're already going through 'significant structural and functional reorganization.'
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"Social media platforms provide adolescents with unprecedented opportunities for social interactions during a critical developmental period when the brain is especially sensitive to social feedback," researchers said. First, the students in the study were asked how many times per day they checked each platform. Their answers were then grouped into categories for researchers to create a score for each participant.
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