Although autism is increasingly diagnosed during adolescence and young adulthood, diagnostic frameworks, tools, and neurobiological evidence have been ...

UCSF's Cherry Leung, associate professor of community health systems with the UC San Francisco School of Nursing, researches ...

Researchers discover that language and Theory of Mind originate in separate brain regions in children, challenging theories of overlapping cognitive development.

A new study examined baby teeth and found there are critical windows early in a child's life when their developing brains are particularly vulnerable to exposures to metals in the environment.

Recent research highlights how adolescent sleep patterns and early reading habits are tied to brain structure, cognition, and ...

In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego have found that teenagers who begin using cannabis show slower gains in ...

Cost-Effectiveness of Maintaining Higher Stem-Cell Collection Thresholds in the Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Era for Multiple Myeloma We structured the STRONG AYA case-mix and core outcome ...

A new study from Oregon Health & Science University found that air pollution can impact adolescent brain development. The analysis indicated that exposure to common air pollutants is associated with ...

University of Pennsylvania researcher Ran Barzilay is a father of three. His first two children received cellphones before they turned 12. But this summer, as early results from his own study on ...

4 German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), partner site Bochum-Marburg, Germany Introduction Approximately one in every six children and adolescents is affected by mental disorders, which impose ...

Research on adults who take S.S.R.I.s shows they tamp down sexual desire. Why aren’t we studying what that could mean for adolescents who take them? Credit...Photo illustration by The New York Times ...