For the parents of a teenager, adolescence can be a challenging time. But to a brain scientist, it's a marvel. "I want people to understand that adolescence is not a disease, that adolescence is an ...

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. The past few years have seen advancements in our ...

Serazin is the President of the Templeton World Charity Foundation and the former program lead in Global Health Discovery & Translational Science at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 2019, he ...

Looking back at an awkward moment in the history of adolescent psychology. By Matt Richtel Matt Richtel has reported extensively on adolescent mental health. This article is adapted from his ...

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

A and B, t-statistic values from linear mixed-effects models for associations between greenspace exposure and T2 cortical thickness (A), T2 surface area (B), change in cortical thickness change (C) ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Macaques are often studied because their brains share many similarities with human brains. However, this study revealed an ...

New research from the University of Cambridge reveals that adolescence for the human brain extends into the early 30s. Scientists identified five distinct brain phases, with the adolescent period ...