Background Our understanding of the mechanisms relating pubertal timing to mental health
problems via brain development remains rudimentary. Method Longitudinal data was …

Background Earlier pubertal timing is associated with higher rates of depressive disorders in
adolescence. Neuroimaging studies report brain structural associations with both pubertal …

The temporal characteristics of adolescent neurodevelopment are shaped by a complex
interplay of genetic, biological, and environmental factors. Using a large longitudinal dataset …

Alongside the exponential flourish of research on age-related trajectories of human brain
development during childhood and adolescence in the past two decades, there has been an …

Research has demonstrated associations between pubertal development and brain
maturation. However, existing studies have been limited by small samples, cross-sectional …

Although there is a long history of studying the influence of pubertal hormones on brain
function/structure in animals, this research in human adolescents is young but burgeoning …

Research examining pubertal timing effects on psychopathology has emphasized that a
subset of adolescents, particularly females, who experience early pubertal maturation …

Studies of puberty have focused primarily on changes in hormones and on observable
physical bodily characteristics. Little is known, however, about the nature of the relation …

Puberty is a critical period of development during which the reemergence of gonadotropin-
releasing hormone secretion from the hypothalamus triggers a cascade of hormone …

Adolescence refers to the period of physical and psychological development between
childhood and adulthood. The beginning of adolescence is loosely anchored to the onset of …