The average American child spends 3.6 hours staring at a computer, television, tablet, or smartphone daily -- an amount of screen time associated with inferior cognitive development and academic ...

Screen time affects children most if it is active and in bed, rather than just before bed, a recent study has suggested. Scientists at the University of Otago in New Zealand tracked the screen time ...

Can't get your teenage girl off her smartphone, iPad or laptop? This could cost her much-needed sleep and increase her risk of depression, a new Swedish study says. Teenagers who spend more time on ...

Despite what we've been led to believe, the timing of evening screen use, rather than the activity itself, negatively impacts youth sleep, a University of Otago study has found. Current sleep ...

The study is first to link cardiometabolic risk and screen time in kids, teens. Kids and teens who spend more time on screens and get less sleep may have higher risks for future heart and metabolic ...

Scrolling through smartphones or watching television in bed has become a common practice in the current digital era. However, a new study that was released in Frontiers Psychiatry cautions that this ...

Sleep scientists are changing how they think about screen use at night. By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Experts have long warned about the dangers of blue light before bed. When exposed via smartphones, ...

A new study found that pre-sleep screen time usage, more weekend screen time, using a phone as an alarm, and video game addiction were common factors associated with later sleep patterns, poor sleep ...

Share on Pinterest Spending time on your mobile phone at bedtime can result in poorer-quality sleep and insufficient sleep. MTStock Studio/Getty Images A new Norwegian study finds that one hour of ...