Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, children differ in maturational tempo. Hypotheses: (i) puberty and its duration are influenced by early changes in height and adiposity. (ii) ...

Purdue Human Development and Family Studies researcher examines bibliographic data on puberty research—a critical period of biological and social development. Today’s puberty research is not just ...

A study in Biological Psychiatry has shown that exposure to violence early in life -- such as physical, emotional, or sexual abuse -- is associated with faster biological aging, including pubertal ...

A possible epigenetic link between the environment and pubertal timing has been discovered by researchers. To a large extent, pubertal timing is heritable, but the underlying genetic causes are still ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Girls with higher dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels at age 7 years are more likely to have more advanced ...

Distinct patterns of early life weight gain predict differential risk for earlier onset of puberty among girls, according to data from a longitudinal analysis published in Journal of the Endocrine ...

“What happens when a girl has the brain of an 8-year old and the body of a 13-year old?” Louise Greenspan, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at Kaiser Permanente, and Julianna Deardorff, PhD, an ...