This summer, many parents find themselves caught between excitement and anxiety as they help their college-bound children prepare for the next chapter in their lives. There’s the practical preparation ...

From movies to TV and parental anecdotes, teenagers are often characterized as risk-taking and impulsive with poor decision-making skills. In most popular depictions, these qualities of teen behavior ...

In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, ...

Adults exhibit a general tendency to make better decisions than adolescents, and this improvement drives an increase in specific and more sophisticated choice behaviors, according to a new study.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mice moving tiny steering wheels to control shapes on a screen have given scientists an unprecedented view of how decisions unfold ...

Research in mice identifies brain circuitry that supports certain reward-based decisions. Every day, our brain makes thousands of decisions, big and small. Any of these decisions -- from the least ...

This reduced connectivity may increase the risk of behavioral problems and mental illnesses like depression and ADHD. Boys and minority children are particularly vulnerable to sleep deficits and ...

Researchers have recently reviewed the existing literature to understand how an adolescent’s eating behavior affects the development of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HPC), as well as ...

When teenagers shift their sleep schedules between school days and weekends, the resulting mismatch can alter the physical ...