Regular social media use across early adolescence is related to worse reading and vocabulary development over time, according ...

Regular social media use during early adolescence is linked to weaker reading and vocabulary development over time, new ...

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders provides evidence that while depression in early adolescence is ...

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 ...

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.

WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function—a set of ...

New research suggests that everyday “forever chemicals” may quietly affect children’s bone development long before adulthood.

This summer, many parents find themselves caught between excitement and anxiety as they help their college-bound children prepare for the next chapter in their lives. There’s the practical preparation ...

Note: This post uses“LGBTQ+” and “queer” interchangeably as umbrella terms for people with non-cisgender and heterosexual identities. Many LGBTQ+ adults did not get the adolescence our cisgender, ...