When kids move from elementary to middle school, they go through enormous developmental changes ranging from physical and emotional to cognitive and social. Adolescence is the largest period of ...
The changing climate doesn’t just threaten younger people in the distant future, it’s happening now at a massive scale. But ...
Chronic sleep deprivation is harming kids’ brains, bodies, and mental health. Fixing it requires bold action from parents, ...
Renata Alves* remembers the judgemental glances people gave her as she walked the narrow alleys of her favela in the southern ...
Background Most mental health disorders are first experienced during childhood. There are evidence-based treatments, but it ...
Daily screen time in late childhood predicts early adolescent depression. Shorter sleep and white matter changes (cingulum bundle) partially mediate this effect.
A 9-year-old girl walked slowly down the clinic hallway. 10 months earlier, her days had been dominated by seizures—sudden ...
For most moms and dads, as their child begins the 10- to 12-year coming-of-age passage, the growing transformation we call adolescence (usually beginning around ages 9 to 13), parenting becomes more ...
1 Conover Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States 2 Computational Biology Core, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States ...