The impact of pubertal DHEA on the development of visuospatial oscillatory dynamics.

ABSTRACT: The adolescent brain undergoes tremendous structural and functional changes throughout puberty. Previous research has demonstrated that pubertal hormones can modulate sexually dimorphic changes in cortical development, as well as age-related maturation of the neural activity underlying cognitive processes. However, the precise impact of pubertal hormones on these functional changes in the developing human brain remains poorly understood. In the current study, we quantified the neural oscillatory activity serving visuospatial processing using magnetoencephalography, and utilized measures of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) as an index of development during the transition from childhood to adolescence (i.e., puberty). Within a sample of typically developing youth (ages 9-15), a novel associatio

SUBMITTER: Fung MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9812248 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature