Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some ...

TikTok uses an algorithm that we may know little about, but we do know that its effects on users are often negative.

The study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science, found the effect occurs in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (PVT), a region that regulates stress and emotion.

Digital addiction is a broad term for unhealthy behaviors related to spending too much time on the internet, in particular ...

It seems to be a trend on TikTok and all over young people’s Snapchat stories. Diagnoses of anxiety disorders have been on ...

But underneath those thoughts is a simple biological truth: Your amygdala—the brain’s alarm system—reacts to uncertainty the ...