Today’s teens are drinking and smoking less, but many are spending more time online, where risky behaviors can be harder for ...

Examining genetic, family, and personality characteristics may help identify those who are at high risk for drinking and ...

Young teens who use cannabis are more likely to be frequent users than people who start later, according to a study in JAMA ...

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Since the dawn of mankind, there has been the battle between fearful parents and their rebellious teenagers. And there is an accepted perception that high-risk adolescent behavior is part of a power ...

SEATTLE – January 5, 2009: In a pair of related studies released by Seattle Children's Research Institute and published in the January 2009 issue of Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, ...

The school year is just getting started, but coronavirus cases have already been reported at colleges and universities in all 50 states. More than 40,000 coronavirus infections have been reported ...

Assessment of risky sexual behavior is somewhat challenging, particularly when adolescents are involved. Measurement of behavior usually relies on verbal reports, which can suffer from a number of ...

NEW YORK – More than one-quarter of teens engage in sexting, and those who send explicit photos of themselves are more likely to become sexually active a year later, according to a study published on ...

ATLANTA -- Risky behavior and a heightened incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among African-American female adolescents may be linked to high exposure to rap music videos, according to ...

When I was a teenager, I thought about sex all the time. However, anyone who knew me back then could tell you that there was little chance the dreams would become reality. If anything, thinking about ...

In our last Forensic View, we saw that adolescent cognition can be very different from that of adults. Part of this derives from developmental differences in the prefrontal cortex, but there are also ...