Today's school and ubiquitous social media environment can put enormous pressure on adolescents in particular. What can parents do?

A large-scale study published in Psychological Medicine suggests that these perceptions of social danger are linked to changes in brain connectivity during early adolescence, which in turn predict ...

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 days) ...

Female adolescent brains (left) experienced more cortical thinning than male brains (right), particularly in areas tied to socialization.Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, University of ...

Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, is a crucial aspect of human social interaction. Parents and educators often wonder how teenagers develop this essential skill and ...

Fluctuations in brain activity, also known as neural variability, enable us to be flexible in adjusting our behavior to the ...

Members of the tight-knit mountain town of Evergreen gathered Monday in support of students at Evergreen High School. The event, at Evergreen Lake, included therapy, animals, music and food to comfort ...

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 ...

This summer, many parents find themselves caught between excitement and anxiety as they help their college-bound children prepare for the next chapter in their lives. There’s the practical preparation ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego, part of the national HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study ...

The first major data release from the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has provided researchers with a groundbreaking resource to study early childhood brain development.