Spread the loveThe rise of social media has coincided with a troubling increase in mental health issues among adolescents. Recent insights from neuroscience reveal that the developing teenage brain, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just as pediatricians use growth charts to monitor a child's height and weight, researchers have now created the first ...

SHANGHAI — Early to bed, early to rise makes teenagers… smarter? New international research using Fitbit data from thousands of teens has revealed that adolescents with earlier bedtimes and longer ...

During adolescence, the teen brain goes through dramatic changes which scientists are just beginning to better understand. For parents, teachers, and anyone who cares for a teenager—it is often ...

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 ...

This is the first in a series of articles on the teen brain, based on a presentation given at Miami Beach Senior High School. If you are the type who wants to skip straight to the tips, don’t worry.

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

As I enter deep middle age, parenting two teenagers, I find reading about brain development more interesting. The old-school view of becoming an adult at 18 (or 21) seems simple. The more recent ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Scientists have reached a milestone in an ambitious initiative to chart how the many types of brain cells emerge and mature from the earliest embryonic and fetal stages ...