Approximately 20% of American adolescents experience a mental health disorder each year, a number that has been on the rise.

Adolescents who regularly choose solitude over social connection show measurable differences in brain structure and function, according to a large neuroimaging study.

Many mood and psychological disorders develop during adolescence; however, the relationship between adolescent stress-related neurogenesis and psychiatric illnesses during this period remains unclear.

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 ...

In Western cultures, adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. A new article published in the journal Child Development Perspectives synthesized recent research on ...

For the parents of a teenager, adolescence can be a challenging time. But to a brain scientist, it's a marvel. "I want people to understand that adolescence is not a disease, that adolescence is an ...

Once their daughter or son starts separating from childhood, usually around ages 9 to 13, adolescence commonly begins. Now the girl or boy feels more restless and dissatisfied, not content to be ...

In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, researchers say they found changes to the structure of microglia, which are ...

Change is the law of living things, the constant process that keeps upsetting and resetting the terms of our existence all the time. Moment to moment, one day to the next, our lives are in constant ...

Recent research shows that climatic changes to which bumblebee queens are exposed in their early life stages impair their ...