Adolescence is often portrayed as a period of struggle and friction, filled to the brim with exhilarating ups and depressing downs. Young people’s behavior tends to be stereotyped as self-absorbed and ...

Want to understand your adolescent? Get to know their brain Adolescence can be a challenging time, but to a brain scientist it's a marvel — a time of breathtaking development. Scientists are learning ...

Over the years, as I've delved deeper into my research on the development of decision-making, my empathy toward adolescents has grown significantly. I have come to recognize the complexity of the ...

A recent study out of Vietnam, published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, offers important insights into how culture affects adolescents' aggressive responses to adverse childhood ...

The personal yet global struggle with mental health may be more visible now than ever before. Yet many people still find it difficult to access the support they need. In Japan, suicide is sadly the ...

A study involving more than 58,000 adolescents from 21 countries found that "unstructured free time"—defined as periods without adult supervision or activities guided by educational, cultural or ...

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 ...