A new study from Bradley Hospital researchers shows that cannabis use during adolescence is associated with differences in ...

Amanda Guyer, professor in the Department of Human Ecology and a faculty researcher at the Center for Mind and Brain, is ...

A review of 73 studies suggests that poor nutrition in early childhood may affect intelligence, learning ability, and ...

A: The current evidence is far from settled. The systematic review proved that a poor diet during the first years of life is ...

Researchers explored the links between the adolescent dopamine system and cannabis use frequency, amount and addiction ...

Socioeconomic context shapes adolescent neural trajectories through diverse pathways. Variations in family income, parental education and neighbourhood resources are associated with structural and ...

Researchers found that repeated cannabis use in adolescents was associated with reduced dopamine-related neurophysiology in ...

Until recently, the prevailing belief was that brain development ceased at around the time a child entered kindergarten (i.e., that the brain is 90-95% formed by age six). However, recent findings ...

Researchers from Kyushu University discovered a previously unrecognized synaptic "hotspot" that forms during adolescence, challenging the long-held view that adolescent brain development was dominated ...

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 days) ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...