Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

A new study suggests that not having any maths education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous. Adolescents who stopped studying maths showed a reduction in a critical brain chemical for brain ...

Key points Two critical goals in adolescence are independent identity and successful management of intense emotions. When adolescents are critical of themselves, they use ineffective ways of managing ...

Teen girls who have greater difficulty effectively solving interpersonal problems when they experience social stress, and who experience more interpersonal stress in their lives, are at greater risk ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt, Ph. D. Problems can be costly and complicating. They take energy to contend with and make life more demanding: “What must I deal with now?” So, consider problems in three ...

A new study shows that that early deprivation continues to affect brain development well into adolescence. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in ...

Sleep is a fundamental biological necessity, especially during adolescence, a period marked by rapid physical, emotional, and ...