A recent study from Oregon Health and Science University found common air pollutants can alter adolescent brain development.

Scientists have discovered that the adolescent brain does more than prune old connections. During the teen years, it actively ...

Adolescents have long engaged in high-risk behaviors and poor decisions. Now we know that it's got a lot to do with what's ...

Circadian misalignment in adolescents is linked to structural changes in brain regions that regulate emotional processing and cognitive function.

The teenage brain isn’t just trimming connections—it’s secretly building powerful new neural hotspots that may shape the mind ...

There is no magical switch that turns on at age 25, or even 32 for that matter. Like your brain, you’re in a decades-long ...

The 25 number became popular off the back of brain imaging studies from the late 1990s and early 2000s. These studies often tracked changes through childhood and adolescence and showed that the brain ...

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 ...

A new study utilizing artificial intelligence has identified specific behavioral patterns that predict alcohol preference in ...

Brain development does not end at 25 but continues into the early 30s as neural networks become more efficient and ...