Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Accumulating evidence suggests that psychological distress during pregnancy is linked to
offspring risk for externalizing outcomes (eg, reactive/aggressive behaviors, hyperactivity …

Aggressiveness has a high prevalence in psychiatric patients and is a major health problem.
Two brain areas involved in the neural network of aggressive behavior are the amygdala …

Community violence exposure is a common stressor, known to compromise youth cognitive
and emotional development. In a diverse, urban sample of 22 adolescents, participants …

Simple Summary Aggression can be viewed as any form of behavior, such as physical or
verbal, that is intended to cause harm or injury to another living being. This form of behavior …

Background Current theories in neuroscience emphasize the crucial role of individual
differences in the brain contributing to the development of risk taking during adolescence …

Literature suggests that neurobiological factors such as brain structure play an important
role in linking social stress with depression in adolescence. We aimed to examine the role of …

Background Externalizing behavior has been attributed, in part, to decreased frontolimbic
control over amygdala activation. However, little is known about developmental trajectories …

Childhood maladaptive aggression is associated with disrupted functional connectivity
within amygdala-prefrontal circuitry. In this study, neural correlates of childhood aggression …

This special section focuses on research that utilizes neuroimaging methods to examine the
impact of social relationships and socioemotional development on adolescent brain …