This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Longitudinal neuroimaging studies demonstrate that the adolescent brain continues to
mature well into the 20s. This has prompted intense interest in linking neuromaturation to …

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools
Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at …

Cross-sectional comparisons have consistently revealed that increased age is associated
with lower levels of cognitive performance, even in the range from 18 to 60 years of age …

Although the systematic study of meditation is still in its infancy, research has provided
evidence for meditation-induced improvements in psychological and physiological well …

The morphology of cortical grey matter is commonly assessed using T1-weighted MRI
together with automated computerised methods such as voxel-based morphometry (VBM) …

Human cerebral development is remarkably protracted. Although microstructural processes
of neuronal maturation remain accessible only to morphometric post-mortem studies …

Increased intraindividual variability (IIV), reflecting within-person fluctuations in behavioral
performance, is commonly observed in aging as well as in select disorders including …

The neurodevelopmental disabilities of those who were born prematurely have been well
described, yet the underlying alterations in brain development that lead to these changes …

Experimental studies indicate that recognition of emotions, particularly negative emotions,
decreases with age. However, there is no consensus at which age the decrease in emotion …