Adolescence is widely thought to be a time when the brain trims away excess neural connections, refining circuits through synaptic pruning. New research now suggests this view may be incomplete.

The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, finds ample evidence that changes in brain structure ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may ...

Parents of teens are always complaining about the amount of sleep their kids get. No matter how many hours teens sleep, they always seem tired. However, that is not a coincidence. According to Johns ...

With youth mental health continuing to be a major concern for families across the country, experts are emphasizing the importance of helping parents recognize early signs of distress and take ...

Researchers used baby teeth to prove that environmental metal exposure during specific weeks of infancy predicts adolescent ...

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, ...

The adolescent brain is built to learn, and during this period areas critical in learning and memory, such as the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, have high levels of plasticity and are easily ...

The study identifies critical windows of metal exposure via baby teeth, revealing impacts on brain development and behavior ...