Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Recent neuroscience models of adolescent brain development attribute the morbidity and
mortality of this period to structural and functional imbalances between more fully developed …

According to the dual systems perspective, risk taking peaks during adolescence because
activation of an early-maturing socioemotional-incentive processing system amplifies …

Emotion regulation is the ability to recruit processes to influence emotion generation. In
recent years there has been mounting interest in how emotions are regulated at behavioural …

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 …

Research has demonstrated that extensive structural and functional brain development
continues throughout adolescence. A popular notion emerging from this work states that a …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with amplified emotional
responses and poor emotional control, but little is known about the underlying mechanisms …

Despite evident heightened adolescent risk-taking in real-life situations, not all experimental
studies demonstrate that adolescents take more risks than children and adults on risky …

This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). The HMM describes the brain as a complex …