Kids had a tough time adapting to their new at-home reality during the pandemic. School shutdowns, isolation from friends, the palpable stress of living in a society pushed nearly to its breaking ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Environmental Research suggests that breathing polluted air may alter the physical development of ...

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's going on in the development of their brains.

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively builds dense new clusters of synapses in specific parts of neurons. These ...

The average teenager now spends approximately nine hours daily consuming digital media, with social platforms accounting for about one third of that time. This unprecedented level of connectivity ...