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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently warned that social media platforms should carry a warning label that they may harm the health of teenagers, a posture supported by research by child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal at Johns Hopkins. Vidal …

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Social media has significant potential to create harm and should be regulated as such. That’s according to Carol Vidal, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins and one author of a recent study looking at the relationship between social …

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Hundreds of people in the 18 to 25 year old range who were studied by Johns Hopkins child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal for depressive symptoms and social media use seem to reveal at least one unexpected finding. Vidal: I …

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Looking at social media use and depression among a group of 18 to 25 year olds, most of whom were women, led Johns Hopkins child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal to conclude that the two are linked, although cause and …

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Mental health problems among US young adults are at an all time high, with many pointing to social media as a prominent factor. Carol Vidal, a Johns Hopkins adolescent and child psychiatrist, did a study looking at depression and social …

Should social media be considered a risk factor for depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Which comes first, depression or social media use? Johns Hopkins child and adolescent psychiatrist Carol Vidal set out to find out. Vidal: We basically looked at depression as an outcome variable, so looking at whether the use of social media …

Looking at young adults over time helps tease out the relationship between depression and social media use, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »