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Chi promuove il divieto indiscriminato di smartphone e social media è davvero consapevole delle conseguenze che avrebbe sulle vite di ragazzi e ragazze?

This Wednesday I will be a discussant on an HMD panel on social media and youth mental health - info below to join ⬇️

1 in 7 adolescents live with a #MentalHealth condition. Without adequate support, these conditions can have long-lasting effects on their education, relationships, and overall well-being. We’re calling on countries to invest in effective age-appropriate mental health services

Our paper on the relationship between perceived income inequalities and adolescent mental health difficulties has been featured as relevant for the UN Sustainable Goal of Reducing Inequalities. Read it on the Wiley website:

I was reading Blashfield et al. (2014) 'The Cycle of Classification: DSM-I Through DSM-5' today and made a plot of the increasing numbers of diagnostic categories defined in each edition of the DSM over the years—quadrupling from 128 in DSM-I (1952) to 544 in DSM-5-TR (2022):

Exciting morning lecturing the MPhil and new PhD students at MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit on confirmatory/exploratory research, pre-registration and registered reports. Happy that #openscience teaching is taken seriously and is a milestone of their postgrad course at the Unit!

We're very excited to announce the launch of 'Turning Points', a new podcast presented by Hugo Fleming and Carly Hood, and produced by @lukasgunschera. In each episode we interview a senior scientist about the pivotal moments in their career... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tur…

Fantastic work on social media and reward learning led by Georgia Turner ⬇️

Our study on the TikTok algorithm and eating disorders is finally published (big thx 2 Emily Harris). We scraped the metadata for ~1 million TikTok videos delivered to users w/ eating disorders versus users w/out eating disorders (i.e. healthy controls) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Queste preziose grafiche abbelliscono quanto ho scritto su Valigia Blu a proposito della legge australiana che vieterà i social media prima dei 16 anni: presenta più problemi che soluzioni. Grazie per lettura e diffusione! Dove cito anche Luisa Fassi ⬇️

Part of this set are Sonia Livingstone & Kim Sylwander, who question if age limits are the best way to protect children online. They argue that these arbitrary rules ignore children's views and evidence about children's development and well-being. (2/7) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Clear and comprehensive summary of our systematic review and meta-analysis by @AmandaVSabo and Dr Louise La Sala from the The Mental Elf ⬇️

It took a good few years for me to realise that wearing nail polish in no way should affect the perception of my intelligence - thanks to WiNUK: Women in Neuroscience UK 🧠 for prompting this reflection with my latest blog 💖 #phdlife