During mouse adolescence, animals from both the genetically altered and normal groups were treated either with daily single injections of THC or with benign saline solution. After 30 days of ...

Understanding an adolescent's need for solitude requires discerning its motivation, whether for positive reflection or ...

"Ninth grade is when schooling becomes more complicated ... at a time when emotional, physical and cognitive development comes together, many students experience troubled decision-making, only to be ...

Unsurprisingly, there are indications that antidepressant treatment during adolescence may cause lasting perturbations in normal developmental processes, altering dendritic spine development and ...

Your child may also be referred to a child or adolescent psychiatrist, psychologist or social worker who is specially trained to diagnose and treat mental illness in children. Psychiatrists and ...

A new study published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience provides initial evidence that differences in brain chemistry during adolescence may help explain why some teens are more likely to ...

On the contrary, adolescent patients are all normal in height, supporting the presence of constitutional delay in infancy with the possibility to reach a normal stature in the adult age.

Adolescence stress exposure in rodents can lead to reduced hippocampal cell proliferation, neuroplasticity, and cognitive impairments, as well as increased depressive-like behaviors. These effects ...