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Underage Drinking Prevention Campaign, featuring the work of the Partnership for Drug Free Kids. This week’s article focuses on adolescent brain development and why teens act the way they do.

Adolescence is a pivotal phase during the development of the brain, marked by increased plasticity. That enhanced ability to form new neural connections also introduces more vulnerability to ...

However, a small number of studies do support that memory formation, social stress, and drug use are processed differently in the adolescent brain compared to other periods of life.

* The use of drugs and alcohol may also disrupt the development of the adolescent brain in unhealthy ways, making it harder for teens to cope with social situations and the normal pressures of life.

Adolescence is a period of heightened vulnerability both to addictive behaviors and drug-induced brain damage. Yet, only limited information exists on the brain mechanisms underlying these ...

Abstract and Introduction Abstract Despite being a first-line treatment for adolescent depression and anxiety, antidepressant drugs appear to have questionable efficacy and carry an increased risk ...

Advances in understanding adolescent brain development may aid future treatments of mental illness and alcohol and substance use disorders. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2018, the ...

In addition to brain maturation, various factors contribute to adolescent substance use. First, males tend to have higher rates of illicit drug use than females.

During the adolescent phase of brain development, the brain undergoes a pruning process to remove less-used nerve cells and strengthen more frequently used nerve cells. This process moves from the ...

Sandstone Care identified nine publications in the National Library of Medicine that reshaped researchers' understanding of the effects of substance use on the adolescent brain.