Pubertal development refers to the changes that occur in a person's body during puberty. It includes things like growing taller, developing sexual characteristics (like breasts in girls and facial hair in boys), and becoming capable of reproducing.
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We further hypothesized that youth more advanced
in pubertal development would show increased neural response to peer rejection and acceptance (above and beyond the effects of age) in regions involved in social and affective processing.
For example, early pubertal maturity may lead to early sexual debut only when family members react to
early pubertal development in certain ways (e.g., with increased restrictiveness and supervision).
Group differences remained unchanged
when pubertal development was controlled in models examining reactivity during the TSST speech.
Surprisingly and in sharp contrast with the common thought, which hypothesized the existence of a population of common progenitors that give rise to ER + and ER - cells, Alexandra Van Keymeulen and colleagues found that the ER + lineage is maintained by a lineage restricted ER + luminal stem cells, able to ensure ER + lineage expansion
during pubertal development, and long - term renewing capacities of ER + lineage in adult mice during cycle of pregnancy - involution.
Given the lack of existing data on
how pubertal development might influence neural response to peer acceptance and rejection, puberty effects were examined using a whole - brain analysis rather than an ROI approach.
What we are learning is that the in utero environment may also affect the timing of
future pubertal development in offspring, which makes sense since human brains are developed in utero and the brain releases hormones affecting puberty,» said study lead author Ai Kubo.
Rates of eating and depressive disorders increase dramatically around the time that girls pass through puberty or in the years just
after pubertal development.
Increased child autonomy may be associated with less restrictions of parental freedom, but may also be accompanied by new challenges for the couple relationship as children reach adolescence and go
through pubertal development.
Self -
perceived pubertal development was measured in the fall semester of 6th grade, along with ethnicity, teacher - reported attractiveness and popularity, and peer - nominated popularity and rumors.
Pearson correlations between aspects of the family environment and diabetes adjustment revealed many significant findings for the total sample and separately
by pubertal development.
The second model (solid arrows) predicts that rumor nominations received in the spring of 6th grade will partially account for the link between
earlier pubertal development and internalizing symptoms reported in both the spring of 6th grade, as well as an entire school year later in the spring of 7th grade.
This study investigated
how pubertal development may influence the relation between aspects of the family environment and diabetes adjustment.
Venus of Kostenky (c. 22,000 BCE) Russian Prehistoric Ivory Carving, Gravettian Culture Hermitage Museum OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between
advanced pubertal development and adolescent dating abuse (ADA) and to test if.
Sex differences in the effects
of pubertal development on responses to a corticotropin - releasing hormone challenge: The Pittsburgh psychobiologic studies
Teens who have constitutional growth delay grow at a normal rate when they're younger kids, but they lag behind and don't start
their pubertal development and their growth spurt until after most of their peers.
if male, to show signs of
pubertal development, including testicular enlargement, penile lengthening, and the growth of pubic hair
The reasons can be early
pubertal development, poverty, sexual abuse in childhood, lack of parent's attention, lack of career goals, family and cultural patterns of early sex, substance abuse, dropping out from school and poor school performance.
Fourth, both drinking behavior and
pubertal development can be traced back to common factors such as psychosocial adversity.
The survey asked girls to report their age at their first menstrual period, an objective measure of
pubertal development, and whether they were more or less physically developed than their peers, a subjective measure.
They found that a girl who is a standard deviation more advanced than her same - age, same - race peers in
pubertal development has a 14 percent increased risk of dating abuse.
Scherf, who also studies adolescents and
pubertal development, began to investigate biological sex differences to further her own understanding of what sex differences — if any — exist in sexually mature men and women, compared to adolescents.
Comparing the effects of age,
pubertal development, and symptom profile on cortisol rhythm in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.
increases in stressful life events, and
pubertal development during early adolescence have been
Circadian cortisol rhythms in healthy boys and girls: Relationship with age, growth, body composition, and pubertal development
Pubertal development was associated with overall cortisol level during the study session, but not cortisol reactivity.
Enzyme replacement therapy for mucopolysaccharidosis VI: growth and
pubertal development in patients treated with recombinant human N - acetylgalactosamine 4 - sulfatase
Again, it has been suggested that
pubertal development may be linked to increased moodiness and possibly subsequent depression.
The main purpose of treating congenital hypothyroidism is to keep the patient in an euthyroid clinical condition, providing thus normal growth, adequate psychomotor and
pubertal development.
As hypothesized,
pubertal development and its associated weight gains (identified by BMI) are linked significantly to perceptions of being overweight, particularly among girls.
In addition, youth characteristics of sex and
pubertal development moderated the trajectories, with children more advanced on pubertal development showing higher initial levels of depressive symptoms, and girls demonstrating steeper slopes of depressive symptoms over time.
This suggests that greater response to rejection «earlier» in
pubertal development may be an important risk factor, or marker for depression.
Rumors were associated with both concurrent and future emotional maladjustment and, partly, acted as a mechanism through which earlier
pubertal development was associated with subsequent depressive symptoms and low self - worth.