In a study led by researchers from Mass General Brigham, children with more adverse prenatal exposures (APEs) showed higher ...

For most moms and dads, as their child begins the 10- to 12-year coming-of-age passage, the growing transformation we call adolescence (usually beginning around ages 9 to 13), parenting becomes more ...

Change is the law of living things, the constant process that keeps upsetting and resetting the terms of our existence all the time. Moment to moment, one day to the next, our lives are in constant ...

New research following children for more than a decade links high screen exposure before age two to accelerated brain maturation, slower decision-making, and increased anxiety by adolescence.

The human brain has four distinct turning points where its structure changes, according to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrating that brain development is not as linear ...

Scientists from the University of Oregon Health and Science (OHSU) have warned that air pollution can have a serious impact ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how ...

Being in your 30s seems like a more evolved era of adulthood But a new study claims that you may still be in your adolescence ...

Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child's developing brain and cause damage to language development, memory, and mood regulation, according to a study. Air pollution causes ...

Nearly 1 of every 5 children or adolescents in the US were living with obesity as of 2020, a rate that has doubled or tripled in the past 30 years. That striking rise of obesity among youth has ...