Source: Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. For many parents, their daughter or son’s entry into adolescence can initially bring some sense of loss because now the days of childhood are over. They will never have ...

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

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.

New research presented by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found young adolescents who habitually checked social media showed a distinct neurodevelopmental trajectory ...

Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists. The researchers show that, in ...

Diana M. Fernández Santos, Wanda I. Figueroa-Cosme, María de los A. Gómez, Johanna Maysonet-Cruz, Christine Miranda-Díaz, Mario Sepúlveda-Santiago, Eddy Ríos-Olivares, Robert F. Hunter-Mellado ...

Adolescence is a remarkable period of development and learning, a time when youths explore and adapt to changes in their social worlds and begin to form a sense of who they are and hope to be. It is a ...