Search Result for 'adolescence'

Just an hour's screen time a day can make them prone to heightened levels of anxiety or depression

Abstaining boosted learning in 16 to 25 year-olds who regularly smoked marijuana within a week.

The DNA we inherit from our parents accounts for over two-thirds of the difference in intelligence between individuals, suggests a study

Jake Isles, 21, used one of his personalities to force a 15-year-old girl, of North Warwickshire to perform sexual acts in 2014.

Amid all the pouts, glitter and motivational quotes that dominate our Instagram feeds, it’s easy to miss the tobacco advertising which is slyly slipping into the background. New research has shown the tobacco giants have a new favourite marketing trick: using Insta influencers as Trojan horses to infiltrate the youth ...

This is despite advertising and broadcasting regulations designed to protect children from this kind of exposure.

A study found teenagers from broken homes had certain areas of their brain that were more mature than those with more stable upbringings

The nuanced ambition of Kathleen Hepburn’s 2017 TIFF entry and debut feature, Never Steady, Never Still, based on her short film of the same name, is soaked in the melancholy of quiet suffering. The film takes inspiration from Hepburn’s close personal experience with Parkinson’s disease, the director’s mother having suffered ...

Smoking pot can almost triple a teenager's risk of suffering depression, according to new research. A study of more than 3,000 teenagers found those who used cannabis were much more likely to suffer bipolar disorder by the time they reached adulthood. It found marijuana caused a condition known as 'hypomania' ...