Adolescence is a time where the most important function is really preparing you for mating. All these brain changes are happening to prepare the organism to be able to carry out that central and important function.

We're able to actually visualize what the changes are that are happening in the brain and how the brain is adapting to its environment and changing to help it deal with all these challenges that are happening during adolescence.

Exposure to vitamin D at the time breasts are developing, particularly around adolescence, might be important.

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition

By the time people reach adulthood, they really don't want to have acne. In adolescence, everybody seems to have acne. My adult patients look around and say, 'I'm the only one who's breaking out.

Drug and alcohol abuse is involved in how they structure their time, especially in adolescence. We also find this increasingly more so in older teenagers,