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A new developmental theory is reshaping how experts understand the reliability of children's and adolescents' memories of ...

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A 19-year-old from Northfield was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Friday in Merrimack Superior Court, for the 2022 slaying ...

Xi Zhu studies PTSD, depression, OCD and brain development to uncover markers that could lead to more precise care ...

Four minutes. Six pulls at the trigger. That’s all it took for 16-year-old Eric Sweeney to take three lives in his brother’s ...

Childhood trauma is linked to mental health problems and chronic pain in later life and is a leading driver of health ...

Income inequality in society has been linked to structural changes in the brains of children who go on to experience poorer mental health.

Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Clare Morell offered her perspective on the harmful effects of smart phones and other digital technologies on children's brains ...

A judge told the 19-year-old who admitted to killing his sister-in-law and his two young nephews inside their Northfield home in 2022 he has “a narrow path” to seek parole five decades from now. On ...

A new study reveals that the brain’s social perception pathway—a network that processes faces, gaze, and speech—is already active at birth or shortly thereafter.