Adolescence: Mind and Brain

A document that details behavioural and neural scientific papers that have studied the phenomenon of puberty

This document highlights how risk taking and risky behaviour develops during adolescence. This document also uses economy literature to explain how this behaviour may develop within adolescence.

This document defines what a foundational executive function is, and how it develops throughout adolescence. This document solely focuses on the behavioural evidence for how FEF's develop throughout adolescence. This includes working memory, eye tracking and processing speed.

A document that defines and outlines how complex executive functions develop during adolescence. It outlines both brain and behavioural evidence.

TRIGGER WARNING: This document contains sensitive topics around Mental Health conditions and behaviours, care is advised. This documents the mental health issues that can have a high prevalence in adolescence, the scientific evidence that supports it, and issues with measuring the mental health issues in adolescence.

This document outlines different theories of how puberty develops, how puberty can be defined, the hormonal changes that occur during puberty, and how puberty can be measured.

A very detailed account of how the ability to understand that others have different minds changes during adolescence. This document contains different accounts of ToM in adolescence, behavioural evidence of how it changes during adolescence and brain evidence for how it changes.

A document that describes how prosocial behaviour develops in adolescence. It contains different theories of how this behaviour develops, along with an analysis of scientific evidence for these theories. It also critically analyses the adolescence literature

This document details the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorder, the developmental subtypes of CD, the risk factors associated with CD and how CD is different across gender.