We go inside a teen brain to show how modern pressures impact the adolescent mind and where it can go wrong. Meet Ruby. She’s about to turn thirteen. She loves Taylor Swift, Japanese anime and ...

Deep inside each hemisphere is an almond-shaped ... Back to the lobes, in the teenage brain, the frontal lobe, which is responsible for problem solving, judgement and impulse control, isn't ...

The study shows that even small shifts toward longer, earlier sleep may deliver measurable benefits for adolescents’ brains.

Imagine your brain as a network of highways. The smoother the roads, the faster the traffic—this is how white matter works in our brains. But what if those highways were damaged before they even ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teenagers who sleep longer perform better at mental tasks, reveals new research. Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – tend to have improved brain function and ...

Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have shown. But the study of ...

A study by Mass General Brigham involving over 9,000 participants found that early life adversity is linked to weaker white matter connections in the brain, which can raise the risk of cognitive ...