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The role of puberty in the developing adolescent brain
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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 puberty, which brings dramatic alterations in hormone levels and a number of consequent physical changes. Puberty onset is also associated with profound changes in drives, motivations, psychology, and social life; these changes continue throughout adolescence. There is an increasing number of neuroimaging studies looking at the development of the brain, both structurally and functionally, during adolescence. Almost all of these studies have defined development by chronological age, which shows a strong-but not unitary-correlation with pubertal stage. Very few neuroimaging studies have associated brain development with pubertal stage, and yet there is tentative evidence to suggest that puberty might play an important role in some aspects of brain and cognitive development. In this paper we describe this research, and we suggest that, in the future, developmental neuroimaging studies of adolescence should consider the role of puberty.
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“Around age 12 (for boys) or 11 (for girls), pubertal hormones inundate the brain, triggering a series of changes in neural structure and function (Euling et al., 2008, Schulz et al., 2009), especially in dopamine-rich limbic regions associated with reward processing (Blakemore et al., 2010, Sinclair et al., 2014).”
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“The impact of increased levels of circulating gonadal (as well as adrenal) puberty hormones on brain and behaviour in humans is not fully understood (Blakemore et al., 2010).”
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“A relatively consistent pattern in this line of inquiry is that adolescents exhibit enhanced reactivity in mPFC during mentalizing, relative to adults (Blakemore, 2008; Blakemore et al., 2007; Blakemore et al., 2010; Burnett et al., 2008; Gunther Moor et al., 2012; Pfeifer et al., 2009; Pfeifer & Blakemore, 2012; van den Bos et al., 2011; Wang et al., 2006).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Blakemore, S., Burnett, S., & Dahl, R. E.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Blakemore, Sarah‐Jayne
- Venue
- Human Brain Mapping
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-05-14
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 926-933
- ISSN
- 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0193
- PMC
- PMC3410522
- OpenAlex
- W2172129021
- Cited by
- 1,011
- References
- 52
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- FWCI
- 2.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust
- National Institutes of Health (NIH-R01)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA018910, DA018910)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Keywords
- puberty, adolescent brain development, pubertal stage, brain maturation, hormonal changes, cognitive development, developmental neuroimaging
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Animals, Brain, Cognition, Hormones, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Puberty, Sexual Maturation
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