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c-Fos expression after neonatal handling in social brain regions: Distinctive profile of RHA-rat schizophrenia model on a social preference test

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Supporting youths in global crises: an analysis of risk and resources factors for multiple health complaints in children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Gender Dysphoria in Adults: An Overview and Primer for Psychiatrists

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Culture, Self, and Agency

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The effects of testosterone on gene expression of cell‐adhesion molecules and scaffolding proteins: The role of sex in early development

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Testosterone administration affects H-MRS metabolite spectra in transgender men

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Neurobiology of Pediatric Gender Identity

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Women's reproductive traits and cerebral small-vessel disease: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study

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The Anatomical, Hormonal and Neurochemical Changes that Occur During Brain Development in Adolescents and Young Adults

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Suppression of ovarian hormones in adolescent rats has no effect on anxiety‐like behaviour or c‐fos activation in the amygdala

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Vasopressinergic sexual dimorphism: Sex chromosome complement and organizational hormonal effects

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Puberty and NeuroDevelopment in adolescents (PANDA): a study protocol

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Cultural Priming Effects and the Human Brain

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Introduction

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Androgen-mediated maternal effects and trade-offs: postnatal hormone development, growth, and survivorship in wild meerkats

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Puberty and ADHD: A scoping review and framework for future research

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Exploratory Evidence of Sex-Dimorphic Associations of the Ulna-to-Fibula Ratio, a Potential Marker of Pubertal Sex Steroid Exposure, with the Implicit Need for Power

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Ritual and Religion as Social Technologies of Cooperation

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Contributions of gonadal hormones in the sex-specific organization of context fear learning

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Gonadal Hormonal Influences on the Adolescent Brain and Trajectories of Behavioral Development

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Sensitive periods of development and the organizing actions of gonadal steroid hormones on the adolescent brain

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Endocrine Modulation of the Adolescent Brain: A Review

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Pubertal hormones organize the adolescent brain and behavior

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Sex, genes and steroids

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