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Don't automatically categories all of your teens' behaviors into stereotyped narratives about hormonal, rebellious adolescents.

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While many parents and guardians fear that teenagers spend too much time on cell phones, video games, and social media, a researcher from Michigan State University advises against being concerned. Disconnection due to the limited access to the internet is a bigger problem than the screen time.

Our internal research is part of our effort to minimize the bad on our platforms and maximize the good: Facebook Head of Research, Pratiti Raychoudhury. On September 14, the WSJ published a story on The Facebook reserch findings which suggested Instagram had an extremely damaging effect on teenagers, especially teenage girls. The newspaper said Facebook was well aware of the harm its products were doing to teens

Researchers looked for potential relationships between the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in the hair and adolescents` depression symptoms and found a surprising connection.

Another student Yuvraaj (name changed) said: "We booked bulk tickets through BookMyShow and surprisingly no one asked about our age or identity proof." 

Most sleep experts agree that adolescents need nine hours of sleep each night to be engaged and productive students; less than seven hours is considered to be insufficient sleep.

A research finds that regular and occasional cannabis use as a teen is linked to a heightened risk of other illicit drug taking in early adulthood. And this pattern is also associated with harmful drinking and smoking

Psychologists are aware that kids who score high on tests of novelty seeking are on average a bit more likely to abuse drugs.

Researchers at Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) in the UK also found that girls are much more likely to access their social media accounts during the night than boys.

 The homogeneous culture and high degree of social connectedness of a community can contribute to teenage suicide as well as thwart prevention efforts, says a study contradicting popular notions about being socially connected.

 Soft drinks and other sugary drinks that include health warning labels are less likely to be purchased by teenagers, a study has found.

Feeling unsafe at school may hamper a student's learning potential and also contribute to more emotional problems, warns new research.

Over a period of four years (2011-15) there has been a 50 per cent drop in the time teens spend watching videos on a TV screen, and in contrast an 85 per cent increase in those viewing videos on smartphones.

The findings showed that mindfulness-based eating awareness training encouraged teens to eat healthier and exercise more and marginalised their tendency to gain weight.

The change in attitude can be traced back to stricter attitudes towards drinking and smoking among parents, public health drives and a clampdown on under-age sales by newsagents and off-licences.

The researchers charted individual trajectories of loneliness based on four annual questionnaires of 730 adolescents in Belgium.

Teens and kids, who take drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to treat Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), are twice as likely to be bullied as their peers without ADHD, according to a recent research.

Regular exercise results in as much as 23 percent reduction in suicidal thoughts and attempts in bullied students, new research has found.

Depressed teens shouldn't take the widely used antidepressant paroxetine as it is neither safe nor effective, as per a reanalysis of an influential study originally published in 2001.