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Getting a phone at 13 cost sleep, not mood

A JAMA Pediatrics study followed 1,959 teenagers from age 13 to 14 and found that getting a smartphone tracked with less sleep, while depression and obesity tracked with how much it was used.

Jul 28, 2026

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Babies born under sugar rationing had less depression

A Molecular Psychiatry study used the end of UK wartime sugar rationing as a natural experiment and found people exposed as infants had 17% lower depression risk decades later.

Jul 28, 2026