Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age 2 showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower ...

Ever spend a little too much time scrolling through social media or binge-watching shows and end up feeling…fuzzy? The phrase “brain rot” has exploded online, used to describe everything from too much ...

MURRAY — Ann Itchon says she will never forget the sound of her husband falling in the bathroom the night he suffered a stroke. On Jan. 23, 2024, Ted Itchon woke up around 2 a.m. to use the bathroom ...

Imagine you're at a dinner party and the person sitting across the table from you suddenly stops making sense, and not because of the glass of wine in their hand. Then maybe one side of their face ...

Teens talk about their “brain rot” online. While there isn’t data to back it up, per se, experts do have concerns about the effect on kids and adults.

All that time you spend online can harm your cognitive health and make it harder to pay attention, concentrate, and learn, experts say. “Brain rot” has been named Oxford’s 2024 Word of the Year. Brain ...

Samantha Ballas, of Syracuse, is a fourth-year medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University in the Rural Scholars Program. She is a NYSARH Research and Policy Fellow in the 2025 cohort. She is ...

For more than a century, brain imaging has been a story of trade-offs: sharp pictures but slow timing, or fast signals with ...

THANKS, DALENCIA. IN THIS MORNING’S MEDICAL ALERT, WHEN HAVING A STROKE, JUST A FEW MINUTES CAN BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, WHICH MAKES RECOGNIZING THE SIGNS SO IMPORTANT. TODAY WE’RE ...