Mental ill health, which has been the leading health and social issue impacting the lives and
futures of young people for decades, has entered a dangerous phase. Accumulating …

This review summarizes the case for investing in adolescence as a period of rapid growth,
learning, adaptation, and formational neurobiological development. Adolescence is a …

This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macro and micro-
contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or …

Alongside the exponential flourish of research on age-related trajectories of human brain
development during childhood and adolescence in the past two decades, there has been an …

Compelling evidence demonstrates that peer influence is a pervasive force during
adolescence, one that shapes adaptive and maladaptive attitudes and behaviors. This …

Social media has rapidly transformed the ways in which adolescents socialize and interact
with the world, which has contributed to ongoing public debate about whether social media …

Social cognitive processes are critical in navigating complex social interactions and are
associated with a network of brain areas termed the 'social brain'. Here, we describe the …

Emotion regulation is the ability to recruit processes to influence emotion generation. In
recent years there has been mounting interest in how emotions are regulated at behavioural …

Social relationships promote health and wellbeing. Brain regions regulating social behavior
continue to develop throughout adolescence, as teens learn to navigate their social …

Prior studies have highlighted adolescence as a period of increased risk-taking, which is
postulated to result from an overactive reward system in the brain. Longitudinal studies are …