Application based on positive results from Phase 3 PEGASUS study, which demonstrated statistically significant blood phenylalanine (Phe) lowering compared to diet ...

Breast health does not begin at 40 with a mammogram, it begins in adolescence, with awareness, education, and the courage to have open conversations.

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 ...

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.

The team found that family conflict, particularly fighting and frequent criticism between family members, and reputational damage among peers were the strongest predictors of current mental health ...

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 ...

A new developmental theory is reshaping how experts understand the reliability of children's and adolescents' memories of traumatic events and adverse experiences. Proposed by Carl F. Weems, Iowa ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development and aging of the human brain, offering new insights into how conditions such ...

Researchers at the University of Exeter have created a detailed temporal map of chemical changes to DNA through development and aging of the human brain, offering new insights into how conditions such ...