A $150m ASTAR study tracks 5,000 young Singaporeans to understand how factors shape adolescence and well-being. Read more at ...

It's been said that eyes are a window to the soul, but new research has found that an adolescent's brain response to a face ...

Across the globe, many young people are coming of age in increasingly polarized societies characterized by social fragmentation, ideological extremism, and ...

Adolescence, the life stage that marks the transition between childhood and adulthood, is known to be a vital period for the brain's development. During this critical phase, people's mental abilities, ...

The five-year study will track about 5,000 adolescents to build Singapore-specific evidence on youth health, mental ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

This summer, many parents find themselves caught between excitement and anxiety as they help their college-bound children prepare for the next chapter in their lives. There’s the practical preparation ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...

A new study shows that that early deprivation continues to affect brain development well into adolescence. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in ...