Youth language is ever-evolving and serves an important role in development. It is more than slang—it's key in creating ...

One part of parenting is deciding when their teenager poses or has a problem; another is dealing with the problem in a ...

EJ Moreno looks at the horrors of teenage life… What do you remember from growing up? Were the changes to your body or ...

Across 28 countries in Africa, armed conflict within 25 kilometers of a female primary school student's household is ...

Teenagers should be considering their dementia risk, academics have said after a new study suggests that having an unhealthy childhood could affect the brain in later life.A child’s body mass index ...

Investigating the interplay of genetics, brain maturation, and mental health, this study reveals insights into adolescent ...

A team at the University of Cordoba analyzed more than 8,000 scientific papers on substance use and adolescence to look for ...

About three-quarters of adolescents report common mental disorders, with a high likelihood of chronicity of symptoms.

Maintaining healthful behaviors may be key to improving the trajectory of heart health from early adolescence into adulthood, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.To identify the ...

Summary: Adolescent rats fed a high-fat diet displayed increased impulsivity and altered decision-making as adults. These “cheesecake rats” were quicker to act on visual cues (indicative of ...

Delayed brain development, genetics, and mental health challenges contribute to disordered eating in young adults, according to a European study by King’s College London. A new study led by the ...

Brain maturation plays a key role in the link between mental health and eating disorders in young people, according to the ...