A recent brain imaging study reveals that the reward system is hyper-connected to other social networks in autistic ...

New research indicates that adolescents who begin using cannabis may experience slower cognitive development than their non-using peers. While future users often start with slightly higher cognitive ...

For many adolescent mothers, motherhood arrives even before they have had the chance to understand themselves or shape their dreams and it is often more than caring for a baby, as they are sometimes ...

Adolescents undergo essential emotional and physical changes that affect their identity, relationships, and overall growth.

A teen was found strangled in a California hotel room in 1969. Fifty-seven years later, police have identified her as Joanne ...

Meibomian gland development differs between children and adolescents, with structural features plateauing in adolescence.

Every extra walk to school, kickabout in the park or trip to the shops could be doing more for teenage mental health than ...

Pike was 18 when she was sent to death row following a murder committed in a jealous rage. More than 30 years later she has ...

The convicted killer was alive and snoring after surviving what has been described as the 'worst botched execution in the ...

With parents' encouragement and strategies they choose for themselves, teens can make meaningful charges in their ability to ...

Childhood obesity remains a pressing global health challenge, yet the impact of dynamic adiposity changes during active developmental window retains poorly understood. Leveraging longitudinal data ...

Girls are at higher risk of internalizing problems than boys. This disparity has widened in recent decades, but the underlying mechanisms remain understudied. Here we analysed data from 3,171 ...