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Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats

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Profiles of Substance Use in Adolescents With Severe Obesity

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Factors Associated with Parents Depression, Anxiety and Stress During COVID-19 Quarantine Process

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Juvenile stress as an animal model of childhood trauma

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Puberté normale et pathologique : aspects médicaux et psychologiques

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Gender-Specific Transmission of Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Families: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis Based on the China Family Panel Studies

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Different behavioral expression of adolescent male and female rats in Hole-Board evaluated through quantitative and T-pattern analysis

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INFLUENCE OF GENDER DIFFERENCE IN THE ANTIDEPRESSANT EFFECT OF FLUOXETINE IN MICE IN TAIL SUSPENSION TEST

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Estradiol and Sex Differences in Generalized Fear

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Exploring networks of complex developmental trauma symptomatology among children and adolescents involved in child welfare

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Risk factor, consequence, or common cause? Linking lower self-regulation and internalizing symptoms during middle childhood in a random intercept cross-lagged panel model

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A validation and short form of the Basic Character Inventory

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Maternal Obesity in Pregnancy: Consequences for Brain Function in the Offspring

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An unhealthy neglect? Examining the relationship between child health and gender in research and policy

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Screen time, problematic media use, and clinical concerns in the ABCD Study: Differences by sex and race/ethnicity

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Applying social emotional learning across secondary school transition: An evaluation of the Motus social emotional learning pilot program

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Gender-specific development of depressive symptoms in older adults: Contemporaneous and temporal network analyses based on the China health and retirement longitudinal study

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Eating Disorders, Psychopathology, and Temperament in Opposite Sex and Same Sex Twins

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Chapter 8. Early and Mid-Adolescence

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Neuroactive Steroids and the GABAA Receptor

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Associations Among Teacher Identification of Symptomology in the Classroom and Children’s Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptomology: Potential Influences of Caregiver History of Childhood Maltreatment

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Chapter 9. Late Adolescence

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Gender-dependent regulation of anxiety-like behavior by δ subunit-containing GABAA receptor during postnatal development

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Impact of Gonadectomy on Maturational Changes in Brain Volume in Adolescent Macaques

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Portuguese adolescents’ perception of the Covid-19 pandemic: Gender differences and relation with psychopathological symptoms

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Positive Youth Development as a Framework for Examining the Relationships Between Conformity to Gender Norms, Social Support, and Adolescent Mental Health

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Relationship of Counselor Trainees’ Gender Role Ideologies on Clinical Judgment with Male Clients

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Affective Inhibitory Control and Risk for Internalizing Problems in Adolescents Exposed to Physical and Psychological Abuse. A Population-based StudyPreprint

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A sex-balanced longitudinal developmental task-free fMRI rat datasetPreprint

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Parenting and adolescent alcohol use: Exploring developmentally sensitive and dynamic influences across adolescence

Li, H. (2014) · The University of Queensland · doi:10.14264/uql.2015.151

Children with Internalizing Problems and Peer Problems : Risk Factors, Treatment Effectiveness, Moderation, and Mediation

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Neuroactive Steroids and the GABAA Receptor

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Pubertal Maturation and Depressive Symptoms among Developing Young Women: Examining the Moderating Influence of Parent-daughter Relationship Quality.

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Pubertad normal y patológica: aspectos médicos y psicológicos

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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COPING AND ANXIETY DURING ADOLESCENCE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSIDERING RACE/ETHNICITY AND GENDER

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Neurosteroids and Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors

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LONGITUDINAL PREDICTORS OF SUBJECTIVE WELLBEING AND ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONING IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: INTERNALIZING AND EXTERNALIZING BEHAVIORS, EMOTION REGULATION, PARENTING, AND SUBSTANCE USE

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Chapter 10. The Odyssey Years

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg10

Chapter 3. The Toddler

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg03

Chapter 5. The Oedipal Phase

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg05

Chapter 6. The Latency Phase

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg06

Chapter 7. Preadolescence

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg07

Chapter 1. A Psychodynamic Developmental Orientation

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg01

Chapter 4. The Oedipal Phase and Emerging Capacities

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg04

Chapter 11. The Role of Developmental Thinking in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

(2013) · American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks · doi:10.1176/appi.books.9781615370979.kg11

Comparison between Physical Health and Mental Status of Korea High School Boarding Students

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Development of aggression and impulsivity: Modulation by adolescent social stress?

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An Examination of Racial Differences in Anxiety Disorder Symptom Structure and Trajectories among Pre-Adolescent Female Youth

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The 5-HT1A-R Knockout Mouse as a Model of Later Life Anxiety Disorders: Implications for Sex Differences

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Chapter 2. Infancy

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Supporting student emotional and mental health needs in a secondary school: staff understanding and self-efficacy

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22q11.2 deletion syndrome

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Sex differences in hormones and their effect at puberty

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Murrosiän alku ja nuoren mielenterveys

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