The brain has five major structural phases during the human lifespan and doesn't reach adulthood until age 32, a new study suggests. Scientists determined that brain development is defined by four ...

While each experience of adolescence is individually unique, I believe that many changes and challenges are much the same for them all. Usually beginning around ages 9 to 13 years, this eight- to ...

A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how ...

With their daughter about to enter the transforming passage of middle school, the parents were feeling anxious about the abrasive adolescent changes soon to come. "We know this isn't elementary school ...