Adolescence is a period of dramatic developmental transitions—from puberty-related
changes in hormones, bodies, and brains to an increasingly complex social world. The …

Depression is associated with social risk factors, social impairments and poor social
functioning. This paper gives an overview of these social aspects using the NIMH Research …

Urbanization has many benefits, but it also is associated with increased levels of mental
illness, including depression. It has been suggested that decreased nature experience may …

Emotion regulation is the ability to recruit processes to influence emotion generation. In
recent years there has been mounting interest in how emotions are regulated at behavioural …

Major life stressors, especially those involving interpersonal stress and social rejection, are
among the strongest proximal risk factors for depression. In this review, we propose a …

The intuitive association between self-focused rumination in major depressive disorder
(MDD) and the self-referential operations performed by the brain's default-mode network …

Adolescence is a period of formative biological and social transition. Social cognitive
processes involved in navigating increasingly complex and intimate relationships continue …

Research has demonstrated that extensive structural and functional brain development
continues throughout adolescence. A popular notion emerging from this work states that a …

Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over
the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how …

Relative to childhood, peer relationships take on a heightened importance during
adolescence. Might adolescents be highly attuned to information that concerns when and …