Why are teenagers less cooperative than adults? A new study using the Prisoner’s Dilemma and computational modeling explains ...

Stressful situations experienced during adolescence tend to cause deeper and more lasting changes to the brain than those ...

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) ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, finds ample evidence that changes in brain structure ...

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 ...