Nineteen young adults handed over their smartphones for three days. When researchers scanned their brains afterward, the ...

A recent study published in Computers in Human Behavior suggests that individuals who excessively use their smartphones display heightened brain activity in regions associated with social pain when ...

Smartphones have transformed nearly every aspect of daily life, from how we communicate and work to how we learn and entertain ourselves. In fact, they are widely used by collectors to access auction ...

A 60 Minutes story aired on April 9 focused on how Silicon Valley is engineering your smartphone, apps, and social media platforms to get you hooked. The gist was that programmers are aware of what ...

Study: Smartphone-based prediction of dopaminergic deficit in prodromal and manifest Parkinson’s disease. Image Credit: mozakim / Shutterstock.com Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative ...

Participants used a commercially available app called Freedom to block internet access on their phones for the duration of ...

Patients with acquired brain injury and orbitofrontal syndrome had more impulsivity and depression symptoms. Compared with healthy individuals, patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) show greater ...

Sending text messages on a smartphone can change the rhythm of brain waves, according to a new study published in Epilepsy & Behavior. People communicate increasingly via text messaging, though little ...

Lawsuits and science collide as new research shows social media detox can reverse brain damage and boost mental health fast.

Indians collectively spent 1.1 trillion hours staring at their smartphones in 2024 — an average of five hours a day per ...