In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...

Largest U.S. study links teen cannabis use to slower cognitive development and reduced gains in memory and attention.

A child's family income and the neighborhood they grow up in may play a much bigger role in brain development than previously ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

Adolescence and emerging adulthood constitute the life phase between the onset of puberty and reaching adult independence, corresponding approximately to the ages of 10 to 24 years. Importantly, it is ...

Developmental scientists have long described mid-adolescents’ emerging capacities to make deep meaning about the social world and self, here called transcendent thinking, as a hallmark developmental ...

The environment in which children grow up can play a central role in their mental development and psychological well-being.

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 days) ...