At 32, the biggest shift kicks in. The brain hits a period of “peak” efficiency, meaning regions of the brain are using the ...

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

During the early thirties, the brain’s wiring pattern moves into what the researchers describe as the adult mode. This adult ...

SHANGHAI — Early to bed, early to rise makes teenagers… smarter? New international research using Fitbit data from thousands of teens has revealed that adolescents with earlier bedtimes and longer ...

ATHENS, Ga. — Scientists from the University of Georgia have discovered something troubling about teenagers who don’t get enough quality sleep: their brains may be forming connectivity patterns that ...

For parents mystified by changes they see brewing in their preteen, La Cañada Unified School District is offering a free six-week parenting workshop starting next Thursday intended to shed light on ...

Recent advances in brain research have confirmed for us that there are qualitative differences between the brain of an adolescent and that of an adult, impacting the way adolescents remember, think, ...

The COVID-19 lockdowns caused significant changes in adolescents’ brains, a scientific study has found. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle used MRI data to show the normal thinning ...

I've spoken at several conferences in the last year or so where presenters were opining on the subject of the teenage brain. Their thesis was that features of the so-called "teenage brain" are largely ...