[News] The teenage brain on social media

1 · · June 13, 2016, 11:26 a.m.
(AntonioGuillem/iStock.com; from UCLA newsroom)   The researchers from UCLA’s Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, studied brain circuits activation of teenagers, when they receive some responses (i.e. the amount of ‘likes’) in social networks (e.g. Instagram). The 32 teenagers (13-18 years old) were participated, and they watched 148 photographs, which including 40 of the teenagers submitted, for 12 minutes. To analyze their brain activity, they scanned teenagers' brain using functiona...