Doing well in school and feeling accepted by your peers are both important challenges during adolescence. Sometimes these don’t fit well together, as when teens are ostracized for being smart. A new study has found that such pressures differ for tee…
Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine recept…
The academic performance of adolescents will suffer in at least one of four key subjects — — English, math, science, history — — if their DNA contains one or more of three specific dopamine gene variations, according to a study led by ren…