Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's ...

After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in institutional orphanages across the country. Because of high child-to-caregiver ratios, these children were neglected, ...

It's a responsibility most adolescents don't consider while in the process of growing up—how they are in charge of creating habits of living that will determine much of how they will probably behave ...

In a study led by researchers from Mass General Brigham, children with more adverse prenatal exposures (APEs) showed higher ...

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 1, 2023 – 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 ...

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 ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Early childhood is a critical period for brain development, which is ...