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'''Adolescent''' is defined as a "person 13 to 18 years of age".<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref>
'''Adolescent''' is defined as a "person 13 to 18 years of age".<ref>{{MeSH}}</ref> The term '''teenager''' is approximately equivalent; a person whose age is a number ending in '-teen' in the English language. The developmental stage is called [[adolescence]].
 
During this period of life, children go through the stages of puberty. Most cultures regard people to have become adults at various ages of the later adolescent years.


==Normal development==
==Normal development==
[[Magnetic resonance imaging]] has investigated the normal development of the brain.<ref name="pmid10491603">{{cite journal |author=Giedd JN, Blumenthal J, Jeffries NO, ''et al'' |title=Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study |journal=Nat. Neurosci. |volume=2 |issue=10 |pages=861–3 |year=1999 |month=October |pmid=10491603 |doi=10.1038/13158 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/13158 |issn=}}</ref>
[[Magnetic resonance imaging]]<ref name="pmid10491603">{{cite journal |author=Giedd JN, Blumenthal J, Jeffries NO, ''et al'' |title=Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study |journal=Nat. Neurosci. |volume=2 |issue=10 |pages=861–3 |year=1999 |month=October |pmid=10491603 |doi=10.1038/13158 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/13158 |issn=}}</ref> and functional [[magnetic resonance imaging]]<ref name="pmid16942837">{{cite journal |author=Yurgelun-Todd DA, Killgore WD |title=Fear-related activity in the prefrontal cortex increases with age during adolescence: a preliminary fMRI study |journal=Neurosci. Lett. |volume=406 |issue=3 |pages=194–9 |year=2006 |month=October |pmid=16942837 |doi=10.1016/j.neulet.2006.07.046 |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304-3940(06)00736-1 |issn=}}</ref> has investigated the normal development of the brain.
 
==See also==
*[[Child and adolescent psychiatry]]
*[[Juvenile delinquency]]


==References==
==References==
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==See also==
* [[Child and adolescent psychiatry]]
* [[Juvenile delinquency]]

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Adolescent is defined as a "person 13 to 18 years of age".[1] The term teenager is approximately equivalent; a person whose age is a number ending in '-teen' in the English language. The developmental stage is called adolescence.

During this period of life, children go through the stages of puberty. Most cultures regard people to have become adults at various ages of the later adolescent years.

Normal development

Magnetic resonance imaging[2] and functional magnetic resonance imaging[3] has investigated the normal development of the brain.

See also

References