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 ...

Such thinking carried into the late 20th century, when researchers developed brain-imaging technology that enabled them to see the teen brain in enough detail to track both its physical ...

As a parent, finding out that your child’s brain is 'rewiring' can be both unnerving and a source of relief. Once you start to understand the science behind the teenage brain, everything becomes ...

Internet addiction rewires teenagers' brains, suggests new research. Signaling between different areas of the brain related ...

Teaching teenagers how to understand their feelings is "key" to helping them mature into resilient and independent adults, ...

The “teen brain” idea is one of the newest fictions, driven by three powerful factors. First, neuroscientists have identified small differences between the brains of teens and the brains of older ...

The development of the brain reaches a critical stage during the teen years, says Liebert. “The brain apparently starts to prune—all the synapses—in the teenage years, to change so that you become an ...

The brain is developing at the same time that other physical, emotional, and cognitive or mental changes are occurring in your teen. Billions of new connections between brain cells are being formed.

Newsweek spoke to mother Allyson Moulton, 37, who described her teenage daughter's medical condition as a "ticking bomb." ...

HANNIBAL (WGEM) - The Community Health Assistance Resource Team (CHART) Teen Health Fair was hosted Saturday at the Admiral Coontz Center in Hannibal. The event featured 40 booths with organizations ...

Teenagers get hooked on drugs because their brains are wired differently, suggests a new study. Many differences appeared to exist in the brain structure of adolescents before any substance use ...