Children who got smartphones before the age of 13 are, per a jarring new study, far more likely to suffer mental health problems down the line. Published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, this new paper out of the Sapien Labs neuroscience startup found that among current young adults in Generation Z, the first generation to grow up on smartphones, the younger smartphone use began, the worse the mental health outcomes were. Using longitudinal data from the Global Mind Project, Sapien's massive and comprehensive mental health database, neuroscientist Tara Thiagarajan and her colleagues found that among the more than […]

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