Background. Many changes in social behavior take place during adolescence. Sexuality
and romantic interests emerge during this time, and adolescents spend more time with peers …

Adolescence has long been considered a turbulent time; beginning with large changes in
hormonal levels and consequent bodily changes, as well as changes in behavior. Recently …

Adolescence is usually defined as the period of psychological and social transition between
childhood and adulthood. The beginning of adolescence, around the onset of puberty, is …

Adolescence is a period of formative biological and social transition. Social cognitive
processes involved in navigating increasingly complex and intimate relationships continue …

Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over
the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how …

The social brain undergoes developmental change during adolescence, and pubertal
hormones are hypothesized to contribute to this development. We used fMRI to explore how …

Evidence from longitudinal studies suggests that adolescence may represent a period of
vulnerability that, in the context of adverse events, could contribute to developmental …

Recent years have seen an explosion of research into the physiological and neural bases of
social behavior. This state-of-the science handbook is unique in approaching the topic from …

Phoenix, Goy, Gerall, and Young first proposed in 1959 the organizational–activational
hypothesis of hormone-driven sex differences in brain and behavior. The original hypothesis …

Social cognitive processes are critical in navigating complex social interactions and are
associated with a network of brain areas termed the 'social brain'. Here, we describe the …