For the parents of a teenager, adolescence can be a challenging time. But to a brain scientist, it's a marvel. "I want people to understand that adolescence is not a disease, that adolescence is an ...

Adolescents often sleep less than recommended and have substantially different sleep patterns on weekdays and weekends. Their mismatch in sleep timing between school and free days, known as social jet ...

In an article published in the journal Nature Reviews Psychology, researchers in Germany and the United Kingdom described the mechanisms through which social media might influence behavioral, ...

A study published in the journal Children addresses the risk factors associated with the use of social media among adolescents and its impact on their overall wellbeing. Social media use has become an ...

UD Associate Professor Mellissa Gordon finds that frequent social media use is associated with decreased academic achievement among early adolescents While most people think about older teens and ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Lundbeck Foundation. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental ...

Being in your 30s seems like a more evolved era of adulthood But a new study claims that you may still be in your adolescence ...

Adolescent well-being, particularly sexual and reproductive health, is increasingly under threat across Nigeria, with poverty and poor orientation identified as key factors influencing improper ...