Amy Orben: 'To talk about smartphones affecting the brain is a slippery slope'

The psychologist talks about the widespread fear that smartphones are harmful to our wellbeing - and the difficulty of proving it Amy Orben is a research fellow at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. She works in the field of experimental psychology and her speciality is analysing large-scale datasets to determine how social media and the use of digital technology affect the wellbeing of teenagers. Her latest paper, co-written with Prof Andrew Przybylski, lo...