There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

The human brain goes through five distinct stages of development during the average human lifetime, with measurable key ...

Child and Adolescent Development is the study of the biological, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth and development of the child from conception through emerging adulthood. Using theory, ...

In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they found changes to the structure of ...

Studies show that adolescence is often when symptoms of mental health illnesses first appear. One-half of such illnesses begin by the age of 14, while three-quarters appear by age 24. Derived from the ...

Binge-drinking during adolescence may perturb brain development at a critical time and leave lasting effects on genes and behavior that persist into adulthood. The findings, by researchers at the ...

Have you ever looked at your teenager and wondered: “Why does my teen do that?” From mood swings to risk-taking, “normal teenage behavior” can appear to be anything but normal to parents and other ...

ADOLESCENCE, according to Webster's first definition, is "the state or process of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood," and this is the meaning that will be given to the term in this ...

Studies show that adolescence is often when symptoms of mental health illnesses first appear. One-half of such illnesses begin by the age of 14, while three-quarters appear by the age of 24. Derived ...

In a mouse study designed to explore the impact of marijuana's major psychoactive compound, THC, on teenage brains, researchers say they found changes to the structure of microglia, which are ...

From the Department of Maternal and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and the Children's and Infants' hospitals, Boston. Harold C.