ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2025
The beautiful adolescent brain: An evolutionary developmental perspective.
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- Towards a neurobiology of early intervention: the importance of critical periods for preventive psychiatry and youth mental health.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Chronic exposure to LED lighting impairs prefrontal cortex-dependent cognitive functions in adolescent rats.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Affect and conceptual learning in indoor and green outdoor school environments: Psychophysiological self-regulation matters.The British journal of educational psychology · 2026Article
- Depressive Symptoms Are Associated With Altered Development of Amygdala-Ventrolateral Prefrontal Connectivity During Implicit Emotion Regulation Across Adolescence.Biological psychiatry · 2026Article
- The explorer's edge: Racial-ethnic identity exploration confers early adolescents of color with protection against racial-ethnic discrimination in a co-sibling control study.Child development · 2026Article
- Adverse outcomes following psychedelic use in adolescents and adults: associations with age and personality traits.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
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- Machine-learning classification of children and adolescents with ASD using resting-state frequency-specific intrinsic activity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Women's mental health: current status and evolutionary perspectives.Evolutionary human sciences · 2026Review
- Changes in social reward across adolescence in male mice.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The beautiful adolescent brain: An evolutionary developmental perspective.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
The adolescent brain has been characterized as a defective car, with no brakes or steering wheel-only an accelerator. This characterization has been used to explain the impulsive and risky behavior of this transient developmental period. But why do adolescents respond to the world the way they do? In this article, we consider adolescent-specific changes in the brain and behavior from a developmental evolutionary viewpoint in how they might be adaptive. We suggest ways in which the adolescent brain has evolved to explore and learn from new and changing environments as the adolescent gains independence from the caregiver and transitions into an adult. We highlight adolescent-specific changes in the brain and behavior in response to emotional and social cues that may facilitate learning to independently secure resources (e.g., food, water, and shelter) and to establish new social bonds beyond the family or pack for their own survival. Specifically, we focus on how rewards, social cues, and threats in the environment influence behavior and may serve an adaptive role for the adolescent.
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