Puberty and functional brain development in humans: convergence in findings?
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Although there is a long history of studying the influence of pubertal hormones on brain function/structure in animals, this research in human adolescents is young but burgeoning. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of findings from neuroimaging studies investigating the relation between pubertal and functional brain development in humans. We quantified the findings from this literature in which statistics required for standard meta-analyses are often not provided (i.e., effect size in fMRI studies). To do so, we assessed convergence in findings within content domains (reward, facial emotion, social information, cognitive processing) in terms of the locus and directionality (i.e., positive/negative) of effects. Face processing is the only domain with convergence in the locus of effects in the amygdala. Social information processing is the only domain with convergence of positive effects; however, these effects are not consistently present in any brain region. There is no convergence of effects in either the reward or cognitive processing domains. This limited convergence in findings across domains is not the result of null findings or even due to the variety of experimental paradigms researchers employ. Instead, there are critical theoretical, methodological, and analytical issues that must be addressed in order to move the field forward.
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- Authors
- Dai, J., & Scherf, K. S.
- Affiliations
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Scherf, K. Suzanne
- Venue
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-10
- Volume
- 39
- Pages
- 100690
- ISSN
- 1878-9293 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6969369
- OpenAlex
- W2968543316
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 104
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7
- FWCI
- 0.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Locations
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- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health
- 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, pubertal hormones, functional brain development, adolescents, reward processing, emotional face processing, social information processing, cognitive processes, amygdala, effect size estimation, neuroimaging meta-analysis
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Brain, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reward, Sexual Maturation
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