Puberty changes more than bodies. Children learn what these changes mean through culture, relationships, and social ...

To understand adolescence is to take a front-row seat at the very essence of human development. It is a thrilling period during which the characteristics that make us unique from all other species are ...

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 ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Adolescence—beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s—is a ...

A new study shows that that early deprivation continues to affect brain development well into adolescence. After the fall of communism in Romania, thousands of children were discovered in ...

Research has found that children with higher genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia show decreases in frontal cortical ...

A new study shows that genetic risk for schizophrenia causes a unique decrease in frontal cortical surface area during early adolescence.

Adolescence is a remarkable period of development and learning, a time when youths explore and adapt to changes in their social worlds and begin to form a sense of who they are and hope to be. It is a ...

Held on 11–12 May 2026, the International Conference on Adolescent and Young People’s Wellbeing in Bangladesh co-hosted by ...