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A behavioral scientist looks at the science of adolescent brain development
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2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. In a remarkably short period of time – about 10 years, by my estimation – the developmental neuroscience of adolescence has matured from a field in its infancy to one that is now approaching its own adolescence. The papers gathered in this special issue, from some of the world’s leading scholars of adolescent brain development, showcase the richness, depth, and breadth of understanding that now characterizes this area of developmental science. As in any field that is barely a decade old, there remain many mysteries, contradictions, and unknowns. But given the short period of time during which systematic study has been ongoing, there is also a surprising degree of consistency, consensus, and replication. In this brief commentary, I focus on several broad themes that cut across the articles in this collection, both with respect to what we know (or at least have a reasonably good understanding of) and with respect to what we do not know. As a non-neuroscientist with no formal training in the study of brain development, it is beyond my expertise to delve deeply into the technical details of the research described by the contributors to this anthology. Nor is such an analysis necessary; the papers are uniformly clear and written at a level that will both interest other neuroscientists and edify behavioral scientists like myself, who increasingly find themselves needing to know about the neural underpinnings of the psychological and social phenomena they study. My focus in this commentary will be mainly on what these new studies reveal that will be of special interest to those who study adolescent behavioral development. Let me begin with what will surely strike many readers as obvious, but which needs to be said strenuously and incontrovertibly. Taken together, the contributions to this issue demonstrate conclusively that the adolescent’s brain is different from both the child’s brain and the adult’s brain. It is different with respect to both morphology and function, and at the levels of brain structures, regions, circuits, and systems. It is different with respect to grey matter (Gogtay & Thompson, this issue), white matter (Paus, this issue), structural connectivity (Schmithorst & Yuan, this issue; White et al., this issue), and neurotransmission (Doremus-Fitzwater et al., this issue; Wahlstrom et al., this issue). It is different in ways that are revealed in studies of sleep (Feinberg & Campbell, this issue), electrophysiology (Segalowitz et al., this issue), functional imaging (Luna et al., this issue; Somerville et al., this issue), pharmacological challenge (Wahlstrom et al., this issue), and stress reactivity (McCormick et al., this issue). It is different in ways that are consistent with studies of juvenile rodents (Doremus-Fitzwater et al., this issue) and non-human primates (Dahl & Forbes, this issue), and among males as well as females (Lenroot & Giedd, this issue). And it is different in ways that are consistent with the observations of behavioral scientists who study both normative development (Sebastian et al., this issue; Dahl & Forbes, this issue) and developmental psychopathology (Gogtay & Thompson, this issue). I state the obvious here to preemptively respond the claims of some non-neuroscientists that the notion of ‘‘the adolescent brain” is some sort of myth (Epstein, 2007; Males, 2009). As this collection of papers makes eminently clear, the fact that there are significant changes in the brain during adolescence is no longer debatable – if indeed it ever was. Indeed, it appears that the brain changes characteristic of adolescence are among the most dramatic and important to occur during the human lifespan. Whether neurobiological differences between adolescents and adults should inform how society treats young people is open for debate, but whether such differences are real is not (Steinberg, 2009). That said, it is important to note, as several of the contributors to this issue have stated, that ‘‘different” does not necessarily mean ‘‘deficient”; that while there are some universals in adolescent brain development, there are also important individual differences; and that the process of brain maturation in adolescence (or during any period, for that matter) unfolds within an environmental context that influences the course of neural development and moderates its expression in emotion, behavior, and cognition. It is also important to acknowledge that we currently have a better understanding of the ways in which adolescent brain development may contribute to psychopathology and problem behavior than we do of the ways in which it may contribute to normative development and positive functioning, and that researchers have paid more attention to the study of universals and processes of biological maturation than to individual differences and environmental influences. As the field matures, and as collaborations between 0278-2626/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.bandc.2009.11.003 E-mail address: laurence.steinberg@temple.edu Brain and Cognition 72 (2010) 160–164
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“all increase linearly from preadolescence through late adolescence and, in some respects, early adulthood.”
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“many risk behaviors follow this pattern, including unprotected sex, criminal behavior, attempted suicide, and reckless driving (Steinberg, 2008).”
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“Especially important are increases in dopaminergic activity during early adolescence in pathways linking limbic, striatal, and prefrontal areas (Wahlstrom et al., this issue).”
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“the presence of peers leads adolescents to more steeply discount delayed rewards, leading to increased preference for immediate, although smaller, ones (O'Brien & Steinberg, 2010).”
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“all increase linearly from preadolescence through late adolescence and, in some respects, early adulthood.”
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“preliminary data indicates that adolescents activate socio-emotional reward regions (e.g., medial PFC, ventral striatum) more strongly when making risky decisions while being observed by their peers than when they do so alone.”
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“follow a ⋂-shaped function, increasing between preadolescence and mid-adolescence, peaking between 14 and 16, and then declining.”
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“all increase linearly from preadolescence through late adolescence and, in some respects, early adulthood.”
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“our early data suggest that adults show few differences in activation of socio-emotional reward centers in the peer condition as compared to when they are alone.”
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“follow a ⋂-shaped function, increasing between preadolescence and mid-adolescence, peaking between 14 and 16, and then declining.”
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“It makes perfect evolutionary sense that individuals are more motivated by appetitive inclinations, more oriented toward sensation-seeking, and more willing to take risks during adolescence, when they must leave the natal environment and seek out mates (Casey et al., 2008; Spear, 2010; Steinberg, 2008).”
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The Introduction describes heightened reward responsiveness, novelty and positive sensation seeking, and risk-taking during adolescence. It also offers an evolutionary explanation: leaving the family environment to find a mate may require high-risk behavior. The paper frames that explanation as a possibility, rather than an established evolutionary fact. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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“there is evidence that adolescents are highly responsive to the social rewards afforded by positive peer evaluation and that such rewards activate the same brain regions as non-social rewards (Guyer et al., 2009).”
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“we have also replicated the earlier finding, but with completely different tasks, showing that the presence of peers increases adolescents' risk taking but has no such effect on adults.”
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“the basic notion that the density of prefrontal grey matter follows a ⋂-shaped trajectory over development, with a peak somewhere around age 11 (earlier for girls, later for boys) still finds considerable empirical support”
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“structural maturity of white matter is correlated with more, not less, risk-taking.”
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“individual differences in individuals' vulnerability to peer pressure are correlated with differences in structural and functional connectivity in ways that link the development of resistance to peer influence to improvements in the coordination of emotion and cognition.”
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“in the lab it is possible to construct tasks that have equivalent meaning to people of different ages and, if necessary, to manipulate performance so that brain functioning can be compared both with and without equivalent performance”
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“has the potential to structure a new, overarching model of normative and atypical adolescent development.”
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“It is now well established that there is a decline in grey matter and an increase in white matter in these regions during adolescence”
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“while there are some universals in adolescent brain development, there are also important individual differences”
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“evidence continues to accumulate that brain maturation continues throughout adolescence, with some of the most significant changes taking place in prefrontal areas.”
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“at least some forms of adolescent psychopathology are related to abnormalities in the remodeling of the dopaminergic system at puberty (which would affect appetitive and affective functioning) or in the morphological changes of the prefrontal cortex or its connections to other brain regions over the course of adolescence (which would affect self-regulation).”
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“Indeed, it appears that the brain changes characteristic of adolescence are among the most dramatic and important to occur during the human lifespan.”
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“the process of brain maturation in adolescence (or during any period, for that matter) unfolds within an environmental context that influences the course of neural development and moderates its expression in emotion, behavior, and cognition.”
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“heightened brain plasticity in adolescence may contribute to increased vulnerability to certain forms of psychopathology, many of which begin or intensify during adolescence.”
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- Not checked yetcites McCormick et al., this issue
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“the basic notion that early adolescence is characterized by a dramatic increase in appetitive drive that remains relatively unchecked until self-regulatory systems mature is eerily similar to the basic Freudian model of adolescence”
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“this neuroscientific model of adolescence is the first new “grand theory” of adolescence to be proposed in the last 50 years.”
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“Dopamine, of course, plays a role in reward anticipation and reward-seeking, but it also has been implicated in motivated action more broadly (Angier, 2009).”
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“we currently have a better understanding of the ways in which adolescent brain development may contribute to psychopathology and problem behavior than we do of the ways in which it may contribute to normative development and positive functioning”
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“posits that middle adolescence is a time of heightened vulnerability to risky and reckless behavior because of the temporal disjunction between the rapid rise in dopaminergic activity around the time of puberty, which leads to an increase in reward-seeking, and the slower and more gradual maturation of the prefrontal cortex and its connections to other brain regions”
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“researchers have paid more attention to the study of universals and processes of biological maturation than to individual differences and environmental influences.”
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“Oxytocin neurotransmission has been implicated in a variety of social behaviors, including facilitation of social bonding and recognition and memory for positive social stimuli (Insel & Fernald, 2004).”
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- Not checked yetcites Insel & Fernald, 2004
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“Animal studies suggest that some of the changes in dopaminergic activity are directly attributable to the hormonal changes of puberty”
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“Brain development undoubtedly influences adolescents' behavior, but it does so within a context.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Most discussions of how adolescent brain development relates to behavior overlook the contexts in which adolescents live.
- Rests on an assumption: How much adolescents engage in risky behavior partly depends on their access to substances and to situations that create risk.
- Rests on an assumption: Raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 reduced alcohol-related driving deaths for reasons unrelated to adolescent brain maturation.
- Rests on an assumption: More parental monitoring, teen driving limits, or after-school adult supervision would probably lower teen pregnancies, car crashes, and juvenile crime, but not via neurobiological changes.
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Adolescents in ancestral environments had to leave the natal environment and seek mates.
“when they must leave the natal environment and seek out mates”
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US law prohibits alcohol sales to individuals under 21, which constrains opportunities for binge drinking during middle adolescence.
“the prohibition of alcohol sales to individuals under 21 in the United States”
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Studies of adolescent brain development have grown faster than studies of the psychological phenomena that such maturation is presumed to produce.
“it is ironic that the remarkable increase in research on adolescent brain development during the past decade has outpaced research on the very psychological phenomena that this period of brain maturation presumably causes.”
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Most psychological studies do not cover the full span from preadolescence through adolescence to early adulthood.
“few studies typically include an age range spanning preadolescence, adolescence, and early adulthood”
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Behavioral and self-report research often compares children with adolescents, less often adolescents with adults, and rarely all three age groups together.
“there are many behavioral and self-report studies that compare children and adolescents, fewer that compare adolescents and adults, and almost none that compare children, adolescent, and adults all at once”
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Most discussions of how adolescent brain development relates to behavior overlook the contexts in which adolescents live.
“one element that has been missing from most discussions linking adolescent brain development and behavior is the context in which adolescents live.”
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How much adolescents engage in risky behavior partly depends on their access to substances and to situations that create risk.
“the degree to which adolescents engage in risky behavior is in part a function of opportunities to access substances and circumstances that place them at risk.”
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Raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21 reduced alcohol-related driving deaths for reasons unrelated to adolescent brain maturation.
“The reason that the incidence of alcohol-related driving fatalities declined when the legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 has nothing to do with changes in the brain development of young people”
The paper relies on this without support.
More parental monitoring, teen driving limits, or after-school adult supervision would probably lower teen pregnancies, car crashes, and juvenile crime, but not via neurobiological changes.
“increasing parental monitoring, placing restrictions on teen driving, or providing adult supervision during after-school hours would likely reduce teen pregnancies, car crashes, and juvenile crime, but for reasons that have nothing to do with neurobiological development.”
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“The brain in adolescence differs significantly from the brain in childhood and adulthood [45–48].”
From Medical decision-making in children and adolescents: developmental and neuroscientific aspects (2017) · cites this paper as [46]
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“The most significant changes in the brain are associated with processing rewards and risks, self-regulation, and the effect of peers on decision-making.”
From Medical decision-making in children and adolescents: developmental and neuroscientific aspects (2017) · cites this paper as [46]
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“the tendency to misinterpret differences as deficiencies [11]”
From Arrested development? Reconsidering dual-systems models of brain function in adolescence and disorders (2012) · cites this paper as [11]
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“the lack of appreciation for the dynamic interplay between limbic and cognitive systems during adolescence [9,11,17]”
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“although risk taking and substance use become more common during adolescence, they decline during early adulthood, when regulatory brain systems have usually reached adult levels of maturity [11,27].”
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“There is also evidence that brain size growth continues into the third decade in some individuals.”
From Emerging Adulthood, a Pre-adult Life-History Stage (2020) · cites this paper as [40]
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“In these individuals, hypothalamic maturation, puberty, and the resultant hormonal surges are dissociated from and even precede development and maturity of frontal cortex (40, 41).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Steinberg, L.
- Affiliations
- Temple University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Steinberg, Laurence
- ORCID
- Steinberg, Laurence
- Venue
- Brain and Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2010-02
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 160-164
- ISSN
- 0278-2626 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2904973
- OpenAlex
- W1991562335
- Semantic Scholar
- 967c9961e4a9e17622948656a152eb87f837a516
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 32 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 54 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 21 · 2012: 32
- FWCI
- 20.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Brain and Cognition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R21DA022546)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- problematic sexual behavior, child advocacy centers, adolescent brain development, misunderstanding, multidisciplinary team, child sexual development, evidence-based interventions, professional training needs, child safety
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Behavior, Brain, Environment, Humans, Models, Neurological, Models, Psychological, Risk-Taking, Adolescent Development
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