It's been said that eyes are a window to the soul, but new research has found that an adolescent's brain response to a face ...

Humans are social animals, so seeing a fellow human face triggers a cascade of activity in our brains. Information about the ...

Researchers analyzed brain scans from more than 5,800 children and compared them with their social lives two years later.

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, ...

Socioeconomic context shapes adolescent neural trajectories through diverse pathways. Variations in family income, parental education and neighbourhood resources are associated with structural and ...

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 days) ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

Children who go on to start drinking alcohol before age 15 may already show distinctive patterns of brain organization years earlier, according to research published in Translational Psychiatry. The ...

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, ...