Kids often crave processed sugary foods. But research shows that consuming too many treats during childhood and adolescence may lead to behavioral and emotional problems.
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Social disadvantage can cause stress that leads to changes in ‘connectivity’ between brain regions, potentially harming adolescents’ ability to plan, set goals, and self-reflect.
Research on the brain’s development could help explain why mental health problems often arise first during adolescence.
The adolescent brain is particularly vulnerable to experience. Puberty is is the time brain networks are hardwired around milestone events. We should help teenagers make meaning of the pandemic.
Teens get a bad rap as selfish, dangerous risk-takers. But neuroscience and psychology research is revising that image: Adolescents are primed to help those around them, with positive benefits for all.
Researchers tracked adolescents’ sleep and scanned their brains. As expected, better sleep went with healthy brain development. Unexpected was the importance of one aspect of where teens slept.
Almost a third of American adolescents have anxiety disorders. Researchers in developmental neuroscience are figuring out that how the brain matures over time may be part of the reason why.
Experiencing and witnessing violence in their communities can lead to emotional, social and cognitive problems for kids. A new study shows it affects how their developing brains grow, as well.
Teens’ brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age boundaries for voting, buying guns and being put to death.
Adolescents have important developmental work to do. Despite what worried grownups think, taking needless risks isn’t the goal for teens. Being risky is part of exploring and learning about the world.
The things teenagers choose to do can be baffling to us, but it’s ok, they’re in a different stage of brain development.
In recent years, the notion of a structurally imbalanced teenage brain has been faulted for bad choices. A review of studies suggests that a deficit in brain development is not to blame.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Professor, Griffith Institute for Educational Research and School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Associate Professor of Health and Wellness Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne
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Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
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Lecturer in Psychology and Criminology, Edith Cowan University
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Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon
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Professor of Psychology, Temple University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University
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Ph.D. Student in Psychology, Yale University
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Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professor and Dean of Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia
