The earlier preteens are on social media the more likely they are to experiment with substances, a new study suggests.

WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

Feeling lonely, out of place, and disconnected are some of cyberbullying's harmful consequences that point to a deeper human ...

The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

Child and adolescent development spans rapid and interlinked changes in physical growth, cognitive capacities and social and emotional skills from infancy through the teenage years. In physical terms, ...

A: The current evidence is far from settled. The systematic review proved that a poor diet during the first years of life is ...

Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University warn that exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain. Air pollution causes harmful contaminants, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Adolescence—beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s—is a ...

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, ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

By Kingsley Mamore, GNA Dambai (O/R), June 10, GNA-The Oti Regional Coordinating Council (ORCC), through the Department of Gender, support from United Nation Population Fund (UNFPA) under the (CPs) ...