ADHD stimulants may improve performance not by sharpening focus, but by making the brain more awake and motivated.

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

Early-life adversity affects more than half of the world's children and is a significant risk factor for cognitive and mental health problems later in life. In an extensive and up-to-the-minute review ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --A new, wide-ranging review of existing scientific data released Tuesday is pointing to the possibility that dozens of commonly prescribed drugs could adversely affect brain development ...

A team of researchers from the University of Aberdeen has uncovered, for the first time, how genes linked to autism and ...

A new study in the lab of Jason Stein, Ph.D., modeled brain development in a dish to identify cells and genes that influence ...

Two-hundred billion views: that’s how many times people watched short-form videos on YouTube last year. They are always under ...