Puberty hormones trigger changes in youthful learning

Aug 1, 2017 by

Using mice, researcher from the University of California Berkeley have found that the onset of puberty seems to flip a switch of some sort in the brain’s frontal cortex that reduces flexibility in some forms of learning....

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Brain adds new cells during puberty that are vital in adulthood...

Mar 6, 2013 by

In a recent study (that used hamsters), neuroscientists showed that during puberty, the brain adds new cells in the amygdala (and its connected regions) – the brain region that deals with reading and understanding social cues. For humans, that...

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