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Back from the SRA (after a Giedd joke)

Dr Jay Giedd of the US National Institute of Mental Health demonstrates how the study of brain development in adolescence is becoming mainstream – and the lessons emerging are all about changeableness and complex interactions between growing intellect and maturing emotions.

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Best years of our lives? When we were 14!

Is there a paradox creeping out of the research woodwork? The more prevention science learns from the findings of randomized controlled trials, the more it recognizes the importance of contextual factors hardest to measure, such as the influence of culture and social structure and how they interact.

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Society for Research in Adolescence Biennial Meeting

Ann Hagell reports on the first day of the SRA conference in Chicago

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