Children who grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods show faster declines in key measures of brain development during ...

Amanda Guyer, professor in the Department of Human Ecology and a faculty researcher at the Center for Mind and Brain, is ...

Late-night screen time may impact teen brain health in two major ways. Experts say poor sleep can contribute to brain fog, ...

The difference between a child’s chronological age and the apparent age of their brain can predict whether they will rely on ...

As more and more weight-loss drug research continues to emerge, learn how GLP-1s appear to affect the brains of adolescent ...

Socioeconomic context shapes adolescent neural trajectories through diverse pathways. Variations in family income, parental education and neighbourhood resources are associated with structural 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 ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

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) ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...