Too much screen time in late childhood is associated with developmental changes in the brain, leading to more depressive ...

Discover a study that links childhood screen time to adolescent depression through poor sleep and changes in brain structure.

You want your child to unwind. You want to avoid a meltdown. But you also want them to get the sleep they need.

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

The onset of PTSD in adolescence, a pivotal phase of human development, has a particularly damaging impact, since it may impair the acquisition of life skills needed for independence and self ...

A recent study by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has found that children born in October, November ...

Sleep issues in children were associated with behavioral and emotional problems in late childhood and early adolescence. The findings highlight the importance of identifying sleep issues in children.

Adolescents in the U.K. who lived in areas with higher levels of air pollution during childhood were at greater risk of reporting worse health in late adolescence than their peers living in less ...

Cooper R, Di Biase MA, Bei B, Quach J, Cropley V. Associations of changes in sleep and emotional and behavioral problems from late childhood to early adolescence. JAMA Psychiatry.

Slavich and colleagues examined data on 10,000 young people drawn from the U.K.’s Millennium Cohort Study, which surveyed its patients for 20 years from late childhood to late adolescence.

Notwithstanding this attention, child marriage has persisted well into the current century. In 2020–21, more than two in five (43%) young women aged 20–24 were married in late adolescence (by age 20), ...