When their child enters adolescence, between ages 9 and 13, parents must keep up communicating as more detachment, differentiation, disagreement, and worldly discovery occur.

For parents of teenagers, adolescence can be challenging, but to a brain scientist it's a time of breathtaking development. And it's a "window of opportunity" on the way to becoming an adult.

There is a difference between the risk-taking, impulsive behavior of teens at large and the rude or frankly aggressive ...

In breakthrough study, researchers map converging trajectories of cognitive development through adolescence The findings have implications not only for psychiatrists and neuroscientists, but also ...

The differences suggest that sensitivity to social media use might be linked to developmental changes, possibly changes in the structure of the brain, or to puberty, which occurs later in boys ...

In one of the first long-term studies on adolescent neural development and technology use, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill report adolescents' habitual checking of ...

Adolescence stress exposure in rodents can lead to reduced hippocampal cell proliferation, neuroplasticity, and cognitive impairments, as well as increased depressive-like behaviors. These effects ...

A study published by neuroscientists at the University of North Carolina found adolescents who frequently checked social media showed increasing sensitivity to feedback from peers.