Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around ... cognitive functioning (ECF), influences adolescent risk taking behavior by creating an imbalance in the ...

Despite being a first-line treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety, antidepressant drugs appear to have questionable efficacy and carry an increased risk of adverse effects in this population.

a pioneering researcher in teen brain development at NIH, puts it. Also peaking during adolescence (and perhaps aggrieving the ancientry the most) is risk-taking. We court risk more avidly as ...

Three developmental neuroscientists presented their research on adolescent brain development and the risk factors for ... these different longitudinal patterns of substance use. “Risk-taking behavior, ...

According to the researchers, their observations advance our understanding of risk-taking teens and are informative for those studying how psychopathology develops, pointing to brain networks that ...

Exposure to air pollution in early life could have lasting effects on child development and mental health in adolescence, according to our recent study.

By identifying the risk of ... during adolescence. The results imply that efforts to strengthen and monitor the development of the top-down cognitive control system in the brain from early ...

The pandemic may be a “definitive disruption” in adolescent brain development with lasting repercussions, some experts warn. For example, Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington reports a bigger ...

Researchers at UCLA Health have found that a person's risk ... cognitive, brain and genetic data from more than 10,000 ...

A novel study shows that by tracking year-to-year changes in brain connectivity ... comments, "Adolescence is an important period characterized by heightened susceptibility to risk-taking ...

A team of scientists found that rats exposed to THC during adolescence showed a heightened ... psychoactive drug in it THC, does to brain development and risk for psychiatric disease,” said ...