Adolescent Development
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Declines in physical activity and higher systolic blood pressure in adolescence.

22 Sep 2009 The authors examined the potential association between changes in the number of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) sessions per week, adiposity, and systolic blood pressure (SBP) during adolescence. SBP and anthropometric factors were ... Read more...

Relationship between bronchial hyperreactivity and asthma remission during adolescence.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Many children with asthma outgrow this disease after the onset of puberty. However, the precise mechanism of outgrowing asthma in children is still unclear. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the characteristics of respiratory physiology during ... Read more...

Developmental implications of openness to experience in preschool children: gender differences in young adulthood.

30 Aug 2009 This study examined the longitudinal implications in late adolescence and emerging adulthood of Openness to Experience measured in preschool in a sample of 102 participants who were followed from preschool through emerging adulthood (age 23). ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adolescent Development'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Declines in physical activity and higher systolic blood pressure in adolescence. 22 Sep 2009
• Relationship between bronchial hyperreactivity and asthma remission during adolescence. 30 Aug 2009
• Developmental implications of openness to experience in preschool children: gender differences in young adulthood. 30 Aug 2009
• Regional variations in the growth of Saudi children and adolescents. 30 Aug 2009
• Body mass index changes and chronic neuroleptic drug treatment for Tourette syndrome. 30 Aug 2009
• Development during adolescence of the neural processing of social emotion. 30 Aug 2009
• Stability of the factor structure of the metabolic syndrome across pubertal development: confirmatory factor analyses of three alternative models. 30 Aug 2009
• Methodological approaches for investigating the biological basis for physical activity in children. 30 Jul 2009
• The biological basis of physical activity in children: revisited. 30 Jul 2009
• Providing developmentally based care for school-aged and adolescent patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Vitamin D and adolescents: what do we know? 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in the interaction of resting-state neural networks from adolescence to adulthood. 30 Jul 2009
• [Adapting communication to the hospitalized child or adolescent] 30 Jul 2009
• Normative data on development of neural and behavioral mechanisms underlying attention orienting toward social-emotional stimuli: an exploratory study. 21 Jul 2009
• Cognitive discrepancies in children at the ends of the bell curve: a note of caution for clinical interpretation. 20 Jul 2009
• Intensity and breadth of participation in organized activities during the adolescent years: multiple associations with youth outcomes. 17 Jul 2009
• Age of puberty in a representative sample of Iranian girls. 7 Jul 2009
• Sex-dependent age modulation of frontostriatal and temporo-parietal activation during cognitive control. 2 Jul 2009
• Age-related cognitive gains are mediated by the effects of white matter development on brain network integration. Jul 2009
• Depression and eating pathology: prospective reciprocal relations in adolescents. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Adolescent Development'

Definition: The continuous sequential physiological and psychological changes during ADOLESCENCE, approximately between the age of 13 and 18.

Descriptor UI: D041923

Alternative terms: Adolescent Development; Development, Adolescent;

Related Mesh Headings: Adolescent Behavior;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects;

Tree Number: F01.525.049; G07.700.320.374.500;

History Note: 2004