The capability to reflect on their own mental state and that of others continues to develop throughout adolescence, with mentalizing scores varying by gender and personality traits, according to a new ...

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 ...

We are pleased to invite you to the SISSA Colloquium "The adolescent brain and mind", a special lecture with Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore from the University of Cambridge, UK.The colloquium is ...

Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence, according to the results of a newly published study by a UB ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt, Ph.D. To stay connected with their daughter or son as adolescence increasingly pulls them apart (which it is meant to do), parents must keep their expectations ahead of the ...

Scientists have published a new study that says, generally, brain development moves out of the adolescent phase only by around age 32, and that this stage begins at 9 years old. According to ...