Regular social media use across early adolescence is related to worse reading and vocabulary development over time, according ...

The global burden of child and youth deaths remains high, despite dramatic reductions in under-5s deaths, and there are stark inequalities across the globe in the availability of health services to ...

New research suggests that everyday “forever chemicals” may quietly affect children’s bone development long before adulthood.

Child and adolescent development encompasses the dynamic progression of biological, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities from infancy through adolescence. Early developmental processes, such as ...

The brain develops in spurts throughout childhood and adolescence, but not much is understood about the process. To disentangle this complicated puzzle surrounding one of the body’s most mysterious ...

Among today's most pressing development challenges is the matching of financing to health needs. One of the critically underfunded global priorities is adolescent health, with adolescents (aged 10–24 ...

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, ...

HealthDay News — Digital media use is consistently associated with risks to child and adolescent mental health and ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth. Washington, DC: The National ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Recent research on adolescent development has underscored important behavioral ...

Note: This post uses“LGBTQ+” and “queer” interchangeably as umbrella terms for people with non-cisgender and heterosexual identities. Many LGBTQ+ adults did not get the adolescence our cisgender, ...