Models of adolescent brain development to predict socioemotional function. This project aims to understand what drives brain development leading to variability in socioemotional functioning in adolesc

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Models of adolescent brain development to predict socioemotional function. This project aims to understand what drives brain development leading to variability in socioemotional functioning in adolescence. Adolescence is a dynamic developmental window for brain development, and current models of adolescent development fail to predict why, when and to whom, changes lead to socioemotional difficulties and poorer outcomes. Timing and progression of puberty is emerging as a better marker of where an adolescents’ brain is up to in development. Having established the largest internationally collaborative dataset, this project will reveal the role of pubertal maturation and hormones in adolescent brain development, with significant beneficial consequences for age-based benchmarking decisions in policy and society.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5202 - Biological Psychology. Lead: Prof Tim Silk