Puberty changes more than bodies. Children learn what these changes mean through culture, relationships, and social ...

For most moms and dads, as their child begins the 10- to 12-year coming-of-age passage, the growing transformation we call adolescence (usually beginning around ages 9 to 13), parenting becomes more ...

A new study from Oregon Health & Science University found that air pollution can impact adolescent brain development. The analysis indicated that exposure to common air pollutants is associated with ...

Research has found that children with higher genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia show decreases in frontal cortical ...

A study in Biological Psychiatry has found that genetic risk of schizophrenia manifests in early adolescence, showing that ...

Stressful situations experienced during adolescence tend to cause deeper and more lasting changes to the brain than those experienced in adulthood. A study conducted on mice at the University of São ...

WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.

Importance Nigeria has a population of 233 million people and high rates of adolescent motherhood. Reduction of adolescent ...