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A study found that teen girls' brains aged 4.2 years faster than average during the pandemic. They might be at higher risk for anxiety and depression.
Adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive development. [60] Piaget describes adolescence as the stage of life in which the individual's thoughts start taking more of an abstract form and the egocentric thoughts decrease, allowing the individual to think and reason in a wider perspective. [61]
Another brain scan study in 2022 from Stanford University showed similar changes in cortical thickness in teen brains during Covid restrictions. The Stanford researchers compared the stress and ...
Cortical white matter increases from childhood (~9 years) to adolescence (~14 years), most notably in the frontal and parietal cortices. [8] Cortical grey matter development peaks at ~12 years of age in the frontal and parietal cortices, and 14–16 years in the temporal lobes (with the superior temporal cortex being last to mature), peaking at about roughly the same age in both sexes ...
The study collects data on the behavior and brain development of over 11,500 children beginning at age 9-10 and continuing through young adulthood. [2] The study collected data from youth in seven primary domains: physical health, mental health, brain imaging, biospecimens, neurocognition, substance use, and culture and environment.
Laurence Steinberg attended Johns Hopkins University from 1970 to 1971. He was educated at Vassar College, where he graduated in 1974 with honors. In 1977 he received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology is from Cornell University. From 1977 to 1983 he was an assistant and associate professor at University of California, Irvine and from 1983 ...
Social media allows people to communicate with other people, no matter the distance between them. [1] Some adolescents with social and emotional issues feel more included with social media and online activities. [2] Social media can give people a sense of belonging which can lead to an increase in identity development.
A 2020 study estimated that as many as 2.9 million children and adolescents in North America have nonverbal learning disability, or NVLD, which affects a person’s spatial-visual skills.