Natasha Devon, mental health campaigner and author of Yes You Can Ace Your Exams Without Losing Your Mind, is here to tell us a little bit about how the teenage brain develops. Natasha ...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. As part of the Woman's Hour ...

IBG and the Institute for Cognitive Science are collaborators on a landmark national study of adolescent brain and cognitive development (ABCD). The ABCD study is the ...

Those who grew up when Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) pamphlets were common in the school counselor's office are ...

Recent research into the neural effects of alcohol and recreational drugs suggests that the developmental trajectory of the adolescent brain may be particularly vulnerable to pharmacological ...

Once we add adolescent hormones and development to the mix, things get a little more complex. The good news is that your brain is doing exactly what it should be doing at this crucial, crazy stage ...

Studies in adolescent animals suggest that some components of the developing serotonergic system respond to SSRI treatment in a similar fashion to the adult system. For example, chronic (over 22 ...

One of the central pillars of brain health is “social cognition”: the capacity of the brain to interact socially with others. It has been embedded in our brains for 1.5 million years . It is ...

Using MRI data, researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle showed that the usual, age-related thinning of the cortex – the folded surface – of the adolescent brain accelerated ...

To understand these effects, we need to look at two key elements: how alcohol is metabolised, and how it affects the developing adolescent brain. Alcohol is mainly metabolised in the liver ...