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Large amounts of screen time for toddlers is linked to anxiety during their teenage years, according to a new study.

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

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The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrating that brain development is not as linear ...

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CRAVEN COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A Craven County father is in jail after deputies say his 4-month-old son was found with multiple brain bleeds. Deputies have charged Marvin Norris, Jr. with felony ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. The baby boy born prematurely to a Georgia woman who had been ...