Adolescence is a time of significant maturation, physically and emotionally New findings indicate that adolescents who have a family history of alcohol abuse demonstrated significantly decreased ...

Children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appear to show early and stable disruptions in ...

Levels of grey matter in two parts of the brain may be linked to a desire to start smoking during adolescence and the strengthening of nicotine addiction, a new study has shown. A team of scientists, ...

Adolescence, the life stage that marks the transition between childhood and adulthood, is known to be a vital period for the brain's development. During this critical phase, people's mental abilities, ...

A brain region in charge of controlling impulsively is smaller in obese teens than in lean ones, according to a new study. The results suggest the bad eating habits that lead to obesity aren't simply ...

When Frances Jensen’s eldest son, Andrew, reached high school, he underwent a transformation. Frances’s calm, predictable child changed his hair color from brown to black and started wearing bolder ...

Your brain is wired to conduct your most important work each day through the most intricate neural connections and across your brain’s four major lobes: frontal, temporal, parietal and occipital. But ...