If your teenager often seems moody and volatile, you might be tempted to dismiss it as normal teenage behavior that will eventually pass. But sometimes the symptoms that most parents and caregivers of ...

As parents, guardians or mentors, noticing changes in a teenager’s behavior can be unsettling. Adolescence is a time of growth and discovery, but it’s also a period where young people might experiment ...

Rutgers Health-led research builds on decades of work showing that family and environmental factors interact with genetics to ...

Recent advances in brain research have confirmed for us that there are qualitative differences between the brain of an adolescent and that of an adult, impacting the way adolescents remember, think, ...

A new study from Dartmouth College identifies a causal relationship between behavioral impulse control and an imbalance in brain function between the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and nucleus accumbens ...

Researchers explored the long-term effects of preschool expansion in Japan in the 1960s, revealing significant reductions in risky behaviors amongst teenagers. By analyzing regional differences in the ...

Young people who play video games with "gambling-like" elements—such as buying loot boxes or in-game items—are more likely to ...

April 3, 2006 — -- The more sexual content in television and magazines that teens are exposed to, the more likely they are to have sexual intercourse at an early age, a new study says. The ...

The Centers for Disease and Control states young people use vapes and e-cigarettes more than any other tobacco product ...

A new study shows that a third of American teenagers prefer chatting with artificial intelligence companions over having real friends. Common Sense Media’s report, titled "Talk, Trust, and Trade-Offs: ...