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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2018

Puberty and the human brain: Insights into adolescent development.

Nandita Vijayakumar, Zdena Op de Macks, Elizabeth A Shirtcliff, Jennifer H Pfeifer

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 214 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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214citing papers in PubMed, 10 pooled it
31.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

214 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 428 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Task-based fMRI Studies in Youths With Irritability.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023
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  19. Mesocorticolimbic connectivity and motivational sensitivity: sex-specific effects of puberty in early adolescence.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nandita VijayakumarDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA. Electronic address: nanditav@uoregon.edu.
Zdena Op de MacksDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Elizabeth A ShirtcliffHuman Development Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
Jennifer H PfeiferDepartment of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
University of Oregon · USIowa State University · US

Funding

Translational Drug Abuse Prevention CenterP50DA035763 · NIDA · OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER, INC. · PI CHAMBERLAIN, PATRICIA, FISHER, PHILIP A · 2013 to 2017
$9.5M
Puberty, neural systems for social processes, and early adolescent mental health: A longitudinal neuroimaging studyR01MH107418 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI PFEIFER, JENNIFER HOPE · 2015 to 2019
$3.0M
NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA035763NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH107418
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alongside the exponential flourish of research on age-related trajectories of human brain development during childhood and adolescence in the past two decades, there has been an increase in the body of work examining the association between pubertal development and brain maturation. This review systematically examines empirical research on puberty-related structural and functional brain development in humans, with the aim of identifying convergent patterns of associations. We emphasize longitudinal studies, and discuss pervasive but oft-overlooked methodological issues that may be contributing to inconsistent findings and hindering progress (e.g., conflating distinct pubertal indices and different measurement instruments). We also briefly evaluate support for prominent models of adolescent neurodevelopment that hypothesize puberty-related changes in brain regions involved in affective and motivational processes. For the field to progress, replication studies are needed to help resolve current inconsistencies and gain a clearer understanding of pubertal associations with brain development in humans, knowledge that is crucial to make sense of the changes in psychosocial functioning, risk behavior, and mental health during adolescence.

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AdolescentAdolescent DevelopmentBrainHumansPubertyAdolescenceBrain developmentFunctional MRIHormonesPubertyStructural MRI

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PMID29972766
PMCPMC6234123
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