The brains of young people are developing until about age 25, limiting their ability to make rational decisions and control impulses. Youth justice policies that ignore this risk failure.
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Children between 12 and 16 years old with mild-to-moderate hearing loss showed differences in their brain responses.
We are not hard-wired to read. It has taken thousands of years of practice to forge connections in our brains to help us do this.
A single session of football heading can temporarily impair memory. So what does that mean for children with developing brains?
College students who take stimulants such as Adderall to get an academic edge might be setting themselves up unknowingly to a vicious cycle of substance abuse and addiction.
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