On Thursday, March 12, Smith College President Sarah Willie-LeBreton welcomed to campus Dr. Frances Jensen ’78—renowned ...

Study maps five major eras of brain wiring from birth to old age, revealing the key turning points that shape how we learn, ...

Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is a crucial aspect of human social interaction. Parents and educators often wonder how teenagers develop this essential skill and ...

A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

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, ...

A recent study from the University of Cambridge reveals that the human brain develops in five distinct phases, with an "adolescent" period extending up to age 32. This discovery, based on thousands of ...

Researchers have recently reviewed the existing literature to understand how an adolescent’s eating behavior affects the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HPC), as well as ...

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) ...

Think your teenager is rude, lazy or constantly pushing boundaries? An expert says many behaviours parents worry about are actually linked to normal brain development. Does your teen have 'attitude', ...

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 ...