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 ...

The glow of a laptop screen at midnight has become the unofficial symbol of student life. Between digital lectures, study playlists, and endless scrolling, screens dominate almost every moment of the ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. “Avoid screens before bed” is one of the most common pieces of sleep advice.

With all the discussion around the adolescent mental health crisis, a prime suspect has gone relatively unnoticed: sleep. I have treated thousands of youths struggling with mental illness over the ...