Adolescent pain complaints may be related to genetic risk for chronic pain across the life course. Identifying whether adolescent pain is genetically linked to chronic pain in adulthood can advance…

Adolescence is a critical developmental window for shaping substance use trajectories. Music engagement during this period may reduce substance experimentation and later misuse through direct effects ...

But their path is not linear, with many starting, stopping and resuming in adulthood; genetics and home environment play differing roles, CU Boulder research

Music engagement traits are linked to important developmental language, cognitive, and mental health outcomes, but longitudinal studies have not examined the developmental stability of music engagement across the first few decades of life, especially using genetically informative designs. The curren …

We’ve known for some time that the first few years of childhood are critical when it comes to development. But a new study has highlighted just how critical the early years are for cognitive ability....

Measures of general cognitive ability (GCA) are highly stable from adolescence onward, particularly at the level of genetic influences. In contrast...

In his research on the brain, Daniel Gustavson looks for clues about when cognitive decline beginsAccording to Daniel Gustavson, assistant research professor in

Procrastination is often viewed as innocuous as long as deadlines are met but it is associated with negative life outcomes. In this Review, Mahy et al. bring together procrastination research in adult...

We examined how brain reserve in midlife, measured by brain-predicted age difference scores (Brain-PADs), predicted executive function concurrently an…

We generally think that genes which increase our risk for depression and anxiety disorders are the same as those which everyday depression and anxiety symptoms, but those with clinical diagnoses are j...