In a first of its kind review, published in World Psychiatry -- the world's leading psychiatric research journal, the researchers...

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

Adolescence is associated with the maturation of cognitive functions, such as working memory, decision-making, and impulsivity control....

DHI are celebrating their 20th anniversary of delivering services to vulnerable people and supporting their families. As part of this...

I have just had a chapter on Young People and Complexity accepted for publication in a new book "Tackling Causes and Consequences of...

Daily cannabis use increased significantly from 2008 to 2016 among those with and without past-month serious psychological distress (SPD)...

In lectures and on this blog I have raised the issue of identity being geographical for some. in the conceptual language of David...

Identity formation is a major developmental task in adolescence but continues throughout adulthood. Significant individual differences,...

Technology is changing all our lives and reaches into every aspect of human behavior. This has not only led to the development of new...

I have suggested for sometime that the primary goal of getting as many young people as possible into higher education would not solve...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Texas at Austin, have found...

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...

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

Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet...

A comprehensive Australian study examining the global impact of suicide prevention approaches in young people has found that...

In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated...

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...

Parents educated beyond high school invest more in family health care, reducing the likelihood of adverse medical conditions despite...

Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to...

In lectures on child development I stress the role of gene-parent interactions in shaping a child's behavior. This is an interesting...