A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

If adolescents replaced 30 minutes of sedentary time each day with sleep or moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, it may ...

Early puberty is becoming more common. Research shows it can change how girls are perceived, treated, and supported as they move through childhood.

Australia's new ban on social media for under-16s should be judged on much more than whether adolescents stay offline, researchers say. Experts from Flinders University say success of the policy ...

Adolescence, the stage of development between childhood and adulthood, is characterized by many profound physical, mental, and emotional changes. During this critical stage, young people can ...

When researchers asked five artificial intelligence programs to create weight management meals for adolescents, the software severely underestimated basic calorie needs. The digital plans also failed ...

Research shows pregnancy triggers extensive brain plasticity, reshaping neural networks involved in social cognition, emotion ...

Hormones, the body's chemical messengers, travel through the bloodstream to organs, controlling nearly every function despite being produced in small amounts.

The Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry Unit (UOC) of ASL Napoli 1 Centro is launching its new project: 'Help, My Child Is (Almost) a Teenager', a series of group meetings for parents of ...

Researchers have found that lifelong physical activity may moderate the structural brain changes linked to adverse childhood ...

In Brazil, an estimated 6.6 million children aged 5-9 years and 9.9 million adolescents aged 10-19 years are overweight or have obesity; clinicians should prioritize prevention and early intervention.

Prescribing of masculinising and feminising hormones for children and adolescents who have gender incongruence or dysphoria – public consultation guide ...