Media use and screen time show both positive negative effects on child development. Parents’ behaviors, perceptions, regulation of parent screen-based device (SBD) may be critical understudied factors in explaining these mixed effects. We developed the Parent Screen-Based Device Use Survey (PSUS) to assess parental multiple SBDs (e.g., computers, phones, TVs) tested its factor structure across ...

BACKGROUND: Screen time, especially television viewing, is associated with risk of overweight and obesity in children. Although several interventions have been developed to reduce children’s screen time, no systematic review of these interventions exists to date. OBJECTIVE: This is a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions targeting a reduction in children’s screen time. METHODS: E...

BACKGROUND Although previous studies have revealed that preschool-aged children imitate both aggression and prosocial behaviors on screen, there have been few population-based studies designed to reduce aggression in preschool-aged children by modifying what they watch. METHODS We devised a media diet intervention wherein parents were assisted in substituting high quality prosocial and educat...

Cognitive dysfunction may be a core feature of major depressive disorder, including affective processing bias, abnormal response to negative feedback, changes in decision making, and increased impulsivity. Accordingly, a translational medicine paradigm predicts clinical action of novel antidepressants by examining drug-induced changes in affective processing bias. With some exceptions, these co...