Personal-accentuation and contextual-amplification models of pubertal timing: Predicting youth depression

Pubertal timing in girls and depression: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND Because the incidence of depression increases after puberty, it is possible that pubertal timing in girls influences the onset of depression. Our objective was to assess the effect of early and late puberty in girls on the incidence of depression. METHODS We systematically searched relevant databases for controlled studies that assessed the impact of pubertal timing in girls on the...

DOHAD and early pubertal timing

Age at menarche varies widely between girls, is estimated to be highly heritable and is associated with long-term health outcomes, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Earlier pubertal maturation in boys and girls links rapid postnatal growth weight gain to later life metabolic and cardiovascular disease [1,2]. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which genotype hundreds of thousands of comm...

Pubertal Timing and Youth Internalizing Psychopathology: The Role of Relational Aggression.

The current study examined relational aggression as a potential mechanism that explains the association between off-time pubertal development and internalizing problems in youth. Youth gender was also examined as a moderator for the association between these variables. It was hypothesized that early pubertal maturation would be associated with higher levels of relationally aggressive behavior w...

Regulation and disorders of pubertal timing.

Disorders of pubertal timing are common and challenging problems for pediatric endocrinologists. Early or late puberty can have immediate effects on a child's psychosocial well-being and may have long-term effects on adult stature. Much is known about the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, but the triggers of pubertal onset in the general population remain elusive. This arti...

Pubertal timing and psychopathology 1 Pubertal Timing and Psychopathology Xiaojia Ge and Misaki N. Natsuaki In Search of Explanations for Early Pubertal Timing Effects on Developmental Psychopathology