Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain. Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, ...

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 days) ...

Exposure to a mixture of toxic and essential metals during early development in the womb and shortly after birth is ...

Socioeconomic context shapes adolescent neural trajectories through diverse pathways. Variations in family income, parental education and neighbourhood resources are associated with structural and ...

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 ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

Children who go on to start drinking alcohol before age 15 may already show distinctive patterns of brain organization years ...

When educators understand how the adolescent brain develops, they are better equipped to design learning experiences that align with their students’ cognitive and emotional capacities As an educator ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...

A lack of follow-through, constant fatigue, inability to focus, and general disinterest in the non-digital world are all familiar signs of a phenomenon that exists thanks to the internet: It’s known ...