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 ...

Teens who are lonely and those who experience conflict in their home life are more likely to act aggressively toward peers or ...

Although social media can have benefits, it can also have significant negative consequences for mental health.

Teen use of marijuana has jumped significantly in recent decades - by 245% since 2000, with over 30% of U.S. high school ...

Researchers identify that the brain's sensory checkpoint (TRN) undergoes a molecular "upgrade" in adulthood for high-resolution perception.

India faces a growing, largely neglected crisis in child and adolescent mental health, rooted in early vulnerability and ...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often talked about as if it were a single condition. But anyone who works ...

The first alarm can feel like a small act of cruelty. It goes off while your brain is still deep in night mode, and the ...

When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...