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A study suggests that teenagers who tend to drive safely have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol in their systems.

Why do teenagers seem so much more impulsive, so much less self-aware than grown-ups? Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore compares the prefrontal cortex in adolescents to that of adults, to show us how typically "teenage" behavior is caused by the growing and developing brain

When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking - they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.

It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image.

WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.