As the adolescent separates from childhood, parent and teenager must accept more diversity and disagreement in their ...

The presence of cellphones can have a negative impact on family relationships and youth mental health, according to two new ...

Change is the law of living things, the constant process that keeps upsetting and resetting the terms of our existence all the time. Moment to moment, one day to the next, our lives are in constant ...

Adolescents who regularly choose solitude over social connection show measurable differences in brain structure and function, according to a large neuroimaging study.

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The stress of pandemic lockdowns prematurely aged the brains of teenagers by at least three years and in ways similar to changes observed in children who have faced chronic stress and adversity, a ...

"Research is clear that SNAP has positive impacts on children’s physical health, development, and academic performance.