As the adolescent separates from childhood, parent and teenager must accept more diversity and disagreement in their ...

A new study published in the journal Development and Psychopathology provides evidence that different types of adversity in ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. For many parents, their daughter or son’s entry into adolescence can initially bring some sense of loss because now the days of childhood are over. They will never have ...

The capability to reflect on their own mental state and that of others continues to develop throughout adolescence, with mentalizing scores varying by gender and personality traits, according to a new ...

Cognitive skills underlying the ability to plan, switch from task to task and resist tempting distractions usually matures by the time an individual turns 18 years old, a new study says. At what age ...

New research presented by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found young adolescents who habitually checked social media showed a distinct neurodevelopmental trajectory ...

Heavy alcohol consumption may cause permanent dysregulation of neurons, or brain cells, in adolescents, according to a new study in mice. The findings suggest that exposure to binge-levels of alcohol ...

Girls and boys might be more vulnerable to the negative effects of social media use at different times during their adolescence, say an international team of scientists. The researchers show that, in ...