In the previous articles on the teen brain (Part 1 and Part 2), I introduced you to the arc of brain development from child to teen to adult. The majority of teen behaviors can be understood (maybe ...

According to a recently released study involving more than 11,000 teens who were tracked from the age of 9-10 until they were ...

As children grow into adolescence, corresponding regions on the left and right sides of their brain function less identically ...

That viral claim that your frontal lobe “isn’t fully developed until 25” turns out to be more myth than milestone. Early brain scans showed that gray matter changes dramatically through the teen years ...

(Part 1 in this series can be found here.) Teens are wired to seek novelty and take risks because this is precisely what is required of them at this stage of development. The other huge driver at this ...