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

Puberty changes more than bodies. Children learn what these changes mean through culture, relationships, and social ...

To understand adolescence is to take a front-row seat at the very essence of human development. It is a thrilling period during which the characteristics that make us unique from all other species are ...

The brain develops in spurts throughout childhood and adolescence, but not much is understood about the process. To disentangle this complicated puzzle surrounding one of the body’s most mysterious ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth. Washington, DC: The National ...

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 recent study has identified how specific puberty hormones relate to the physical structure and functional wiring of the ...

A new study shows that that early deprivation continues to affect brain development well into adolescence. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Implementing Best Practices and Crafting Effective Messaging to Help Adolescents Flourish." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. Flourishing in ...

Research has found that children with higher genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia show decreases in frontal cortical ...