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What Back to School Might Look Like in the Age of COVID-19

July 30, 2020

Center founding director Dr. Ron Dahl talks about the importance of engaging adolescents in safety solutions in this illustrated guide on how schools are planning to reopen in the midst of the pandemic. 

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Neuroscientist Adriana Galván Named Dean of Undergraduate Education

June 26, 2020

Center board member Adriana Galván has been named UCLA's dean of undergraduate education. In addition to serving on the Center's Leadership Team and National Scientific Council, Professor Galván is a professor of psychology, holds the Wendell Jeffrey and Bernice Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience, and is director of the Developmental Neuroscience Lab at UCLA. Congratulations, Adriana!

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What Happens When Kids Don’t See Their Peers for Months

June 24, 2020

"[Adolescents] have a natural affinity for learning about not just their peers and those strong friendships, but about ‘me’ in relationship to others,” says Dr. Ron Dahl, the Center's Founding Director, in this article for The Atlantic about what it means for young people to miss their friends for so long.

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Coronaprofile: Quaran-teens? How are young people coping with the pandemic?

June 23, 2020

"[Young people] need to have their own role in this brave new world and feel that they can contribute to the larger goals of society," says neuroscientist Dr. Eveline Crone, in this interview about her ongoing research about the effects of coronavirus lockdowns on the developing adolescent brain. 

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Mobile Technology May Support Kids Learning to Recognize emotions in Photos of Faces

June 2, 2020

The increase in screen-time to connect with grandparents, teachers, and friends during the COVID pandemic has fed existing concerns that all this virtual interaction could be impeding social learning. In this article for The Conversation, Dr. Yalda Uhls, founder of the Center for Scholars and Storytellers, talks about her recent study in which kids who grew up with tablets and smartphones were actually better at reading emotions in photographs.

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Panicking About Your Kids’ Phones? New Research Says Don’t

January 17, 2020

NSCA member Dr. Candice Odgers talked with reporter Nathaniel Popper about what the evidence really shows about digital media and youth.

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The Truth About Screen Time

December 19, 2019

Screen time for adolescents isn’t just a question of good or bad. The truth, as this article featuring Center Advisory Board member Nick Allen and Founding Director Ron Dahl explains, is that we need more nuanced information about who, how much, when, and what they’re not doing instead. 

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Why Adolescents Need Regular Sleep—and Plenty of It

October 2, 2019

Sleep is a major health issue for adolescents, affecting adolescent mood, immunity, and even weight. Science News for Students talked to our Advisory Board member Andrew Fuligni, UCLA, about how getting enough sleep throughout the week is essential to mental health and academic success.

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Coming of Age in the Animal Kingdom: Linda Wilbrecht Reviews “Wildhood”

September 26, 2019

Center Advisory Board member and UC Berkeley neuroscientist Linda Wilbrecht reviews the new book Wildhood. The book, Prof. Wilbrecht explains, details coming-of-age stories from across the natural world, revealing commonalities between animals that "celebrate the beauty and complexity of our own species’ journey into the big wide world."

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12,000 Adolescents Participate in ABCD, the Biggest U.S. Longitudinal Study of the Maturing Brain

August 30, 2019

Nearly 12,000 adolescents from around the country are participating in the 10-year Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study—the biggest longitudinal study of the developing brain undertaken in the U.S. Mother Jones magazine provided an inside look at this massive effort to transform the understanding of how our brains develop. “We’re going to be working with this dataset for decades,” said Center advisor Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer, University of Oregon.

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