A recent study from Oregon Health and Science University found common air pollutants can alter adolescent brain development.

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, ...

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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 ...

Adolescence is a time of marked improvements in cognitive abilities, such as abstract reasoning, problem solving and creative thought. More generally, it is also an important developmental period for ...

For the human brain, adolescent development spans from the age of 10 into the mid 20s. During this time, new neurological connections are forming alongside social experience to connect the thinking ...

Advances in understanding adolescent brain development may aid future treatments of mental illness and alcohol and substance use disorders, according to new research. Advances in understanding ...

The detailed mapping revealed an unexpected pattern. One specific section of the dendrite contained an unusually dense ...