Despite the headlines, the impact of social apps on adolescent mental health isn’t so clear. By Catherine Pearson Every generation has its moral panic and for Gen Z — teenagers today — it is, ...

Adolescents often sleep less than recommended and have substantially different sleep patterns on weekdays and weekends. Their ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A recent study found that frequent use of social media could be reshaping how adolescent brains develop, and at least one Pacific Northwest school district is blaming tech companies ...

In Western cultures, adolescence is often viewed as a time of rebellion and irresponsibility. A new article published in the journal Child Development Perspectives synthesized recent research on ...

Social experience sculpts the teenage brain. Source: iStock/pixelfit Humans are fundamentally social, and perhaps never more so than in adolescence when hanging out with friends is the top priority ...

Parents, teachers and even kids themselves are describing a generation that cannot focus, cannot sleep and cannot look away ...

Teenagers often sleep less than the recommended amount of time and have significantly different sleep patterns on weekdays ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the Lundbeck Foundation. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental ...

For the parents of a teenager, adolescence can be a challenging time. But to a brain scientist, it's a marvel. "I want people to understand that adolescence is not a disease, that adolescence is an ...