Children experiencing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder face symptoms that can persist, emerge, or fade away ...

Experts break down the neurological and psychological reasons teens struggle with decision-making, and what parents can do to ...

Late-night screen time may impact teen brain health in two major ways. Experts say poor sleep can contribute to brain fog, ...

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 ...

A new study published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience provides evidence that breathing high levels of neighborhood ...

Socioeconomic context shapes adolescent neural trajectories through diverse pathways. Variations in family income, parental education and neighbourhood resources are associated with structural and ...

Teen cannabis use is linked to slower cognitive growth, especially memory, with THC as a likely contributor during key developmental years.

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

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, ...

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) ...