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

Attention disorders such as ADHD arise when the brain struggles to separate important signals from irrelevant noise. At any ...

During adolescence, the teen brain goes through dramatic changes which scientists are just beginning to better understand. For parents, teachers, and anyone who cares for a teenager—it is often ...

Attention disorders such as ADHD involve a breakdown in our ability to separate signal from noise. The brain is constantly ...

Prescription stimulants are among the most widely used psychiatric medications in the world. For decades, the prevailing ...

Study demonstrated that the Homer1 gene improves focus by reducing “noise” in the prefrontal cortex, with implications for studying attention disorders.

Neuronal sequences in the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain encode critical information associated with a procedural rule. These sequences can be explored and leveraged as novel biomarkers for ...

Turning 30 seems like a big milestone in someone’s life. People often believe that when one steps into their 30s, that person is entering a new and more evolved era of adulthood. But what if we tell ...

This guest post was written by Suzanne Houston, a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at USC who uses neuroimaging techniques to study brain development in children and adolescents. All of ...

The average teenager now spends approximately nine hours daily consuming digital media, with social platforms accounting for about one third of that time. This unprecedented level of connectivity ...