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Has gone up so much in children. >> you actually discussed this at length, the pernicious effects of social media. tiktok, instagram, it has to have a damaging effect on the young mind not prepared for the social evaluation all the time. what is this doing to our kids? >> i mean, there is no question it's dramatically increasing brain health, mental health, challenges, kids who spend the most time on social media. they often get those toxic political messages and found to thin the cortex or change their brain in a negative way. your brain is actually not fully developed until you are about 25....

Thing. that means the part of the brain, the cortex that actually does the functioning that we need the brain to do, which we call executive functioning in psychiatry, is actually smaller. so it's actually shrinking. we see this in other things like alcoholism and some other pathologies as well. but that's very concerning for us as psychiatrists and especially as parents because as these kids grow, you know, the brain continues to grow and develop until about age 25. so around that age, the brain pathways are somewhat set. so if you're thinning out your brain during those years, then when you ...

A new study in mice has helped illuminate how the brain's primary motor cortex (M1) – a brain region most commonly associated with control of motor functions – helps suppress dimensions of neuropathic pain.

We don't know what happened. nothing nefarious, but we don't know if he was having an emotional issue, and we just don't know. and the media did find him. because places like cnn covered it, he saw himself and he realized he was in trouble and called home. i mean that's what you want to have happen. it worked and you have to get an explanation. >> it would be, and this was a low priority for the mpolice in france. they saw it he is 22 years old. he can go do what he wants and he seemed to have left on his own accord. and from the french perspective, let us know if something happens. the fbi, t...

Research could provide insight into how brain develops and potentially into treatment for intellectual disability, Chinese team says.