The resulting account of the adolescent brain—call it the adaptive-adolescent ... they value the reward more heavily than adults do. During lunch break, a teen shows off leaping skills in ...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. As part of the Woman's Hour ...

Brain maturation during adolescence influences the development of restrictive or emotional eating habits in adulthood Unhealthy eating behaviors are linked to higher mental health challenges ...

According to recent study by the American Psychological Association, teens spend an average of four point eight hours per day ...

IBG and the Institute for Cognitive Science are collaborators on a landmark national study of adolescent brain and cognitive development (ABCD). The ABCD study is the ...

Recent research into the neural effects of alcohol and recreational drugs suggests that the developmental trajectory of the adolescent brain may be particularly vulnerable to pharmacological ...

Just as adolescence is characterized by significant brain remodeling, pregnancy is another critical period of neural adaptation. This insight could have profound implications for how we view and ...

There is also plenty more to understand about the adolescent brain. But by looking at some typical neurological differences between the teen and adult brain, perhaps we can learn a bit more about ...

Childhood, adolescence and very old age are good examples ... However, there may be a stage of life when the brain's clock starts speeding up. The brain starts changing without you necessarily ...

Given the malleability of the adolescent brain to environmental stimuli, exposure to psychotropic drugs during this developmental period can have unexpected short-term and enduring neural ...