While each experience of adolescence is individually unique, I believe that many changes and challenges are much the same for them all. Usually beginning around ages 9 to 13 years, this eight- to ...

A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

Most young people seem to understand that adolescence is no time to go it alone. Such social isolation can breed loneliness (“I don’t have friends to keep me company”) and ignorance (“No one tells me ...

Among today's most pressing development challenges is the matching of financing to health needs. One of the critically underfunded global priorities is adolescent health, with adolescents (aged 10–24 ...

Early-life exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may influence how children's bones develop during ...

WASHINGTON — Legal responses to juvenile offending should be grounded in scientific knowledge about adolescent development and tailored to an individual offender's needs and social environment, says a ...

Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo changes in the brain that could lead to additional addictive behavior and tendencies, finds a new study. Adolescents with an internet addiction undergo ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is offering Girlology and Guyology programs, which are designed to help girls ...

This is according to the 2025 State of the Health of the Nation Report released by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social WelfareA new report has shown that about one in three adolescents in ...