Teens using marijuana demonstrated somewhat slower rates of improvement on cognitive tests like verbal recall compared to their non-using peers.

Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that teenagers who use cannabis show slower ...

SAN DIEGO — A new UC San Diego study strengthens the growing body of evidence that marijuana use impacts adolescent brain ...

Yet one simple habit continues to make a lasting difference: reading together. Reading aloud to children can be an accessible ...

(Willie B. Thomas/DigitalVision/Getty Images) A long-term study of more than 11,000 children and teens has linked ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego have found that teenagers who begin using cannabis show slower gains in ...

At what age does an adolescent start thinking as an adult? A new study published this week in Nature Communications presents some of the first definitive evidence that executive function—a set of ...

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