Researchers Find Social Media Affects Amygdala in Kids
Study finds that social media apps heighten sensitivity to peer approval in social settingsA recent study from the University of North Carolina found that social media use affected the brain matter in children, particularly the amygdala, which processes reward and punishment. Per an article from Neoscope, an imprint of Futurism, Researchers from the University of North Carolina have found, in one of the first studies of its kind, that habitually checking social feeds may change the ways early adolescents process social rewards and punishments — changes concrete enough that they can be seen as distinct and divergent neural pathways in brain scans.” Noor Al-Sabai, Scientists Find Something Strange in Brain Scans of Kids Hooked on Social Media (futurism.com) The researchers found that students who checked social media more frequently experienced greater sensitivity to their Read More ›
