A large-scale study published in Psychological Medicine suggests that these perceptions of social danger are linked to changes in brain connectivity during early adolescence, which in turn predict ...

In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found changes to the structure of ...

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 ...

Fluctuations in brain activity, also known as neural variability, enable us to be flexible in adjusting our behavior to the ...

Science can now show what frustrated parents and teachers have observed: Today’s children and adolescents spend too much time ...

Heavy alcohol consumption may cause permanent dysregulation of neurons, or brain cells, in adolescents, according to a new study in mice. The findings suggest that exposure to binge-levels of alcohol ...

Before COVID, American teenagers’ psychological health was already in decline. The pandemic, with its sudden lockdowns, school closures and other jolts to normal life, made that downward slope steeper ...

Eating walnuts on a regular basis could benefit the cognitive development of adolescents and contribute to their psychological maturation. These are some of the conclusions reached by a study led by ...

A recent study published in PLOS One failed to find evidence that caffeine consumption is linked to changes in a brain ...

A professor at the University of Alabama is studying the effect of exposure to PFAS—nicknamed “forever chemicals”—on cognitive function in adolescents, and she’s starting her research in McIntosh, ...