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 ...

Adolescence, the life stage that marks the transition between childhood and adulthood, is known to be a vital period for the brain's development. During this critical phase, people's mental abilities, ...

In humans and other primates, adolescence is associated with improvement in cognitive abilities and with changes in brain structure and connectivity. However, how these changes affect neural activity ...

Child and adolescent development spans rapid and interlinked changes in physical growth, cognitive capacities and social and emotional skills from infancy through the teenage years. In physical terms, ...

Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain. Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, ...

This study moves beyond static, cross-sectional associations between genetic risk and brain structure to identify when genetic risk begins to shape neurodevelopmental trajectories, providing some of ...

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 ...

A: The current evidence is far from settled. The systematic review proved that a poor diet during the first years of life is linked to lower intelligence scores in adolescence. While adolescence is a ...

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 ...