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What if there were a way that digital technology could help adolescents in the face of mental health crises? Center advisor Dr. Nick Allen, University of Oregon, one of the co-investigators in the MAPS (Mobile Assessment for the Prevention of Suicide) study, talked to Science magazine about how digital tech could help predict and prevent suicide.
“The evidence linking sleep and mental health is a lot tighter, more causal, than the evidence for social media and mental health,” Co-Executive Director Andrew Fuligni explains in a new Associated Press article about the importance of promoting healthy sleep during adolescence.
NSCA member Jacqueline Nesi is interviewed in a New York Times op-ed about how AI chatbots might affect young people by taking key peer roles, and why we should consider regulation backed by lawmakers and research. In the article, Nesi suggests that more research is needed on how these new technologies affect young people specifically, and these results may help us better tailor and scaffold their experiences with them.
