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

The odds ratio (OR) for gender differences in major depression is 1.95, averaged meta-
analytically over all ages and nations. The gender difference appears by age 12, OR= 2.37 …

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 …

The measurement of puberty is an intricate and precise task, requiring a match between
participants' developmental age and appropriate techniques to identify and capture …

Meta-analytic, population cohort, prospective, and clinical studies provide systematic
evidence that child sexual abuse accounts for unique variation in several deleterious …

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

Purpose Eating disorders and their core symptoms (eg, binge eating, body weight/shape
concerns) disproportionately affect females, and these sex-differentiated effects become …

The family environment, with all its complexity and diverse components, plays a critical role
in sha** neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. Herein we review several domains of …

During adolescence and puberty, alterations in pain, both experimental and clinical, are
observed. In addition, adolescents undergo extensive biopsychosocial changes as they …

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development℠(ABCD) Study is an ongoing, diverse,
longitudinal, and multi-site study of 11,880 adolescents in the United States. The ABCD …