Young adolescents' cognitive developmental characteristics can be identified and can serve as a basis for developmentally-appropriate educational experiences. Middle and secondary school educators ...

A new study suggests that not having any maths education after the age of 16 can be disadvantageous. Adolescents who stopped studying maths showed a reduction in a critical brain chemical for brain ...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is perhaps best known for its work helping America’s youth. Lisa Lawson, the president and CEO, ...

Experiences of early adversity due to poverty, abuse, and neglect are known to interfere with children's cognitive and emotional development. Recent research in Psychological Science expands on past ...

Child and Adolescent Development is the study of the biological, physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive growth and development of the child from conception through emerging adulthood. Using theory, ...

There are predictable “tasks” or processes that are associated with healthy adolescent development, depending on the adolescent phase. As adolescents progress through developmental phases and tasks, ...

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 ...

A recent study published in PLOS One failed to find evidence that caffeine consumption is linked to changes in a brain ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego, part of the national HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study ...

A new study published in Psychopharmacology suggests that while teenage exposure to THC, the main psychoactive component of ...