Adolescence is a time of increased risk taking, but do adolescents learn differently from reward and punishment, or from childhood to adoelscence? Source: Cotonbro studio/Pexels This post was written ...

In one form or another, I keep coming back to the importance of young people learning to effectively speak up. I do so because having or lacking this capacity seems to make such a profound social and ...

This study will synthesize the behavioral and cognitive sciences, education, and neuroscience research on literacy to understand its applicability to adolescent and adult populations. It will review ...

The personal yet global struggle with mental health may be more visible now than ever before. Yet many people still find it difficult to access the support they need. In Japan, suicide is sadly the ...

A team from the UCO analyzes the impact that one's first romantic relationships have on the acquisition of skills enabling them to develop healthy sentimental bonds Adolescence is a stage of great ...

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 ...