I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated at birth come acros...

Offending in young people is deeply entwined with impulsive behavior and particular group norms. This is supported by a recent study that found young burgla...

People with psychopathic traits are predisposed toward antisocial behavior that can result in "unsuccessful" outcomes such as incarceration. However, many in...

Mindfulness can be seen as a panacea for all things these these days. However, it needs to be subjected to more rigorous study in order to ascertain what it...

Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, a study led b...

Teenage girls with problematic social behavior display reduced brain activity and weaker connectivity between the brain regions implicated in emotion regulat...

A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Massachusetts General Hospi...

The professional youth field is very focused on the idea of low self-esteem being a driver of so many of young people's problems. Young people do bad things...

In lectures and training in mental health I stress how current psychiatric diagnosis is really a short-hand for the presenting signs and symptoms of a patien...

Adolescents require 8-10 hours of sleep at night for optimal health, according to sleep experts, yet more than 70 percent of high school students get less th...

For the first time, Temple University researchers have used machine learning to rank the most important determinants of future affluence. Education and occup...

Without realizing it we make use of emotion regulation strategies all the time and they are crucial for everyday life. This is the control we subconsciously ...

Shifts in values is vital for recovery in both mental health and addictions, especially for those who experience the most complex problems. Values do not ha...

A study published in the August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports on a group of boys diagn...

Children who struggle with weak cognitive control at an early age are at most risk for trouble in adulthood following their engagement in risk-taking activit...

I am a big fan of Prof Walter Mischel and his wonderfully simple but hugely influential Marshmallow Tests (you can see some original footage on my video page...

In training and adolescent development I often refer to the emotional brains inability to see the future. As a result, the more distant the individuals perc...

Callous-unemotional traits have been linked to deficits in development of the conscience and of empathy. Children and adolescents react less to negative stim...

In a new Canadian study, researchers from the Université de Montréal set out to investigate the genetic and environmental factors in childhood that may be re...

Teenagers are the most sleep deprived group in society. Whilst sleep requirements tail-off across childhood, they increase again sharply during adolescence....