A decade-long study reveals how childhood adversity alters brain development, increasing risks for mental health disorders and substance use.

While the brain typically reaches a mature state of development in early adulthood, the internal processes that make and remake the brain—the birth of new neurons and death of old ones ...

While researchers have long spotlighted the role childhood abuse, poverty, and substance use play in human development, ...

An analysis of data from the Twins Early Development Study revealed that the association between ADHD symptoms and emotional ...

Millions face serious mental illnesses that reshape reality and disrupt lives, highlighting the urgent need for better care ...

More information: Trajectories of Inflammation in Youth and Risk of Mental and Cardiometabolic Disorders in Adulthood, JAMA ...

But by the time most Americans reach adulthood ... the effects of the discrimination on mental well-being are taxing.” What this study shows is “the psychological effects of discrimination start to ...

Research shows that survivors have higher risk of becoming a victim of, or perpetrating, IPV in adulthood. But, with ...

Ruby Tsang summarises a recent longitudinal study of trajectories of inflammation in youth and risk of mental and ...

healthy friendships related to positive mental and emotional health in adulthood – and might actually be more prone to social anxiety later in life. “Our research found that the quality of ...