A new study shows that that early deprivation continues to affect brain development well into adolescence. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in ...

The numbers are sobering: nearly 80 per cent of the world's teenagers don't get enough physical activity, according to the ...

A massive new study is shedding light on problematic screen use and the mental health of U.S. adolescents - with worrisome findings. The findings, published Thursday in the American Journal of ...

A new study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders provides evidence that while depression in early adolescence is linked to various cognitive difficulties at first, most of these issues do ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sleep issues in children were associated with behavioral and emotional problems in late childhood and early ...

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 ...

While there is clear evidence that leaders blossom early, little research exists about leadership development in adolescence. Arguing that an understanding of youth leadership would have immediate ...

Does toddler behavior predict teenage fitness? A longitudinal study shows that active play and limited screen time at age 2.5 ...

After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in institutional orphanages across the country. Because of high child-to-caregiver ratios, these children were neglected, ...