ReviewNature neuroscience2018
Studying individual differences in human adolescent brain development.
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184 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Examining pathways between trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms, harsh parenting, and adolescent executive functions: insights from the 2004 Pelotas birth cohort.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Social 'envirotyping' the ABCD study contextualizes dissociable brain organization and diverging outcomes.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Adolescence is a period of social, psychological and biological development. During adolescence, relationships with others become more complex, peer relationships are paramount and social cognition develops substantially. These psychosocial changes are paralleled by structural and functional changes in the brain. Existing research in adolescent neurocognitive development has focused largely on averages, but this obscures meaningful individual variation in development. In this Perspective, we propose that the field should now move toward studying individual differences. We start by discussing individual variation in structural and functional brain development. To illustrate the importance of considering individual differences in development, we consider three sources of variation that contribute to neurocognitive processing: socioeconomic status, culture and peer environment. To assess individual differences in neurodevelopmental trajectories, large-scale longitudinal datasets are required. Future developmental neuroimaging studies should attempt to characterize individual differences to move toward a more nuanced understanding of neurocognitive changes during adolescence.
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