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The UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent is bridging neuroscience and policy with a new online tool. The STEPS for Youth tool – which stands for Science to Enhance Policy Success for Youth – ...

We tend to think of adolescence as a problem waiting to happen. Many have incredibly low expectations for the period and are satisfied if kids survive these years without something terrible happening ...

One of the most surprising findings is that the period the scientists refer to as “adolescence” starts around the age of nine ...

We're fast learning how smartphones impact childhood, and the findings of a new study about young tweens on the cusp of ...

The slowdown of physical activity during adolescence is not likely caused by lifestyle and environment but by energy demands placed on the body as it grows and sexually matures, according to a new ...

Adolescence - That changes abruptly from the age of nine when the connections in the brain go through a period of ruthless ...

Though you’d probably rather not have to, go ahead and channel the undoubtedly more awkward kid version of yourself, attempting to wiggle into teenaged transition like it was a pair of secondhand ...

A 13-year-old boy is arrested for the alleged murder of a classmate - a girl. Soon enough, it becomes clear that what he has been looking at on his smartphone could be used to implicate him. Now, that ...

A previous version of this article was published on HuffPost UK earlier this year. There are a few contributing factors that helped make Adolescence one of 2025’s most talked-about shows – namely, its ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It was a warm summer morning and I was folding a mountain of laundry on our screened-in porch. I was ...

Why did you write Age of Opportunity? There were two driving forces that motivated me. The first is that if you look at statistics on the well-being of American young people, you see quite clearly ...