PURPOSE As the first study of its kind, the overall purpose of this article was to examine the relationships and interactions between harsh parenting (HP) and food insecurity (FI) in adolescence on the development of overweight/obesity (OW/OB) in emerging adulthood. METHODS Data came from the Iowa Youth and Families Project, a longitudinal study of 451 adolescent youth and their families that...

The purpose of this study is to explore the change trajectory loneliness in adolescent game users by utilizing "game player panel data" Korea Creative Content Agency. A latent growth model was used changes youth players. results are as follows. Loneliness nonlinearly. among players increases over time and then decreases they enter adolescence. result suggests that adolescence requires different...

Social relationships are particularly important during adolescence. In recent years, histological and MRI studies have shown that the brain is subject to considerable structural development during adolescence. Brain regions that are implicated in social cognition, including parts of prefrontal, parietal and superior temporal cortex, undergo the most pronounced and prolonged change. However, the...

Food consumption and preferences may be shaped by exposure to stressful environments during sensitive periods in development, and even small changes in consumption can have important effects on long term health. Adolescence is increasingly recognized as a sensitive period, in which adverse experiences can alter development, but the specific programming effects that may occur during adolescence ...

Adolescence is a life phase in which the opportunities for health are great and future patterns of adult health are established. Health in adolescence is the result of interactions between prenatal and early childhood development and the specific biological and social-role changes that accompany puberty, shaped by social determinants and risk and protective factors that affect the uptake of hea...

Adolescence is a sensitive period for categorical self-concept development, which affects the ability to take others’ perspectives, might differ from one’s own, and how self-related information memorized. Little known about whether these two processes are related in adolescence. The current study recruited 97 male participants aged 11–35 years. Using self-referential memory task, we found that ...

Adolescence marks a time of significant change in brain development, along with heightened plasticity as compared to adults, well the highest prevalence smoking initiation. While adolescents are suggested be at increased risk escalating their use, evidence also suggests these factors concur provide resilience addiction during adolescence adulthood. This critically highlights importance unravell...

OBJECTIVE To study attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and DSM-IV subtypes in childhood and adolescence. METHOD A total of 457 adolescents ages 16 to 18 years from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 participated in an epidemiological survey for ADHD. After assessment with a diagnostic interview those with current or childhood ADHD were classified using DSM-IV criteria...

Adolescence is a critical period of brain maturation characterized by the reorganization of interacting neural networks. In particular the prefrontal cortex (PFC), a region involved in executive function, undergoes synaptic and neuronal pruning during this time in both humans and rats. Our laboratory has previously shown that rats lose neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and there is...

Adolescence is a unique period of physical and cognitive development that includes concurrent pubertal changes and sex-based vulnerabilities. While diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies show white matter maturation throughout the lifespan, the state of white matter integrity specific to adolescence is not well understood as are the contributions of puberty and sex. We performed whole-brain DTI...