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

Discover essential strategies for navigating the tumultuous years of parenting preteens and teenagers. With insights from BACP counsellor Margaret Ward-Martin, learn how to foster open communication, ...

Zulfiqar A Bhutta and colleagues argue that the response to children in fragile and conflict affected settings must move beyond event based framings to tackle cumulative and intergenerational ...

Periods of prolonged social isolation have long been associated with difficult emotions and, in some cases, with the emergence of psychiatric symptoms, such as depression, anxiety, and difficulties ...

Teens are using AI companions for emotional support. Learn why adolescents are at risk for this false intimacy and what parents can do to protect them from it.

Corporal punishment is still on the books in Missouri and used in some schools. The practice is from an earlier era, rooted ...

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 ...

This study examines an important question regarding the developmental trajectory of neural mechanisms supporting facial expression processing. Leveraging a rare intracranial EEG (iEEG) dataset ...

In this guide to the canine adolescent years, Christopher Pachel, DVM, DACVB, CABC (IAABC), breaks down this critical phase—from hormones to the prefrontal cortex—based on his 2026 VMX session in ...

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 ...