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 …

How and why are teenagers different from children and adults? A key question concerns the
ways in which pubertal development shapes psychological changes in adolescence directly …

Adolescence may mark a sensitive period for the development of higher-order cognition
through enhanced plasticity of cortical circuits. At the same time, animal research indicates …

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

In this paper, we discuss the surging hormones of puberty and their influences on
adolescent behavior. We describe why these issues represent an interesting and important …

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

Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in our understanding of
structural and functional brain development in adolescence. However, understanding the …

The onset of adolescence in humans is marked by hormonal changes that give rise to
secondary sexual characteristics, noted as puberty. It has, however, proven challenging to …

Adolescence is a time of dramatic physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes as well
as a time for the development of many social–emotional problems. These characteristics …

We promote the perspective that puberty, a separate biological process embedded in
adolescence, is a “window of opportunity” for understanding and impacting health and …