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This is where you'll find news coverage, interviews, features and media stories about BrainWaves and our work to improve adolescent mental health through research and education.
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The social media ban sceptic: are we getting it wrong on kids, tech and mental health?
Psychologist Candice Odgers has studied adolescent mental health for 25 years. She fears the current debate around smartphones obscures some of the biggest issues facing teenagers.
3 things affecting teenagers’ mental health
Researchers at the BrainWaves conference last week summarised a range of studies that tell us more about adolescent wellbeing, and how schools might be able to support young people’s mental health.
How social media use influences young people's mental health
Professor Sarah Bauermeister and Julian Turner discuss the latest findings from BrainWaves. Listen from 26:38 to hear the discussion.
TikTok the worst platform for young people’s mental health, research reveals
Oxford’s BrainWaves study, the first to distinguish the effects of different social media, says the app is most closely linked to anxiety and depression.
The link between heavy social media use and teenage anxiety
An Oxford study into teenage mental health has found that some are spending eight hours a day doom-scrolling on their phones.
Teenage social media use strongly linked to anxiety and depression
Oxford university research comes as number of children treated by NHS mental health services surges.
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