A recent study has identified how specific puberty hormones relate to the physical structure and functional wiring of the ...

Puberty changes more than bodies. Children learn what these changes mean through culture, relationships, and social ...

The brain develops in spurts throughout childhood and adolescence, but not much is understood about the process. To disentangle this complicated puzzle surrounding one of the body’s most mysterious ...

To understand adolescence is to take a front-row seat at the very essence of human development. It is a thrilling period during which the characteristics that make us unique from all other species are ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth. Washington, DC: The National ...

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 ...

Research has found that children with higher genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia show decreases in frontal cortical ...

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announces the release of Child & Adolescent Studies Source, a comprehensive full-text database covering the latest research in child and adolescent growth and ...

A new study shows that genetic risk for schizophrenia causes a unique decrease in frontal cortical surface area during early adolescence.