When you're a teenager, it's easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of self‐consciousness fades as they grow up. For others, it deepens into full‐blown ...

Many people know that obesity carries certain health risks, as it makes you more likely to develop diabetes, heart disease, stroke and certain cancers. But fresh research being presented at this ...

Mental health problems among teenagers have skyrocketed during the pandemic, suggesting adolescents are especially vulnerable to the psychological repercussions of COVID. One large-scale study ...

The COVID-19 lockdowns caused significant changes in adolescents’ brains, a scientific study has found. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle used MRI data to show the normal thinning ...

Teenagers have a bad reputation. They’re moody, they thrive on drama. They take risks that terrify their parents and seem blithely unaware of the potential consequences of their actions. The reason ...

Recent advances in brain research have confirmed for us that there are qualitative differences between the brain of an adolescent and that of an adult, impacting the way adolescents remember, think, ...