Biology of Adolescent Behavior and Development

What role does pubertal maturation play in parent-adolescent relationships?

How does nutrition influence physical growth and behaviour in adolescence?

What biological processes affect adolescent depression?

Exploring these and other significant questions, this first volume of the series provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the biological causes of adolescent development and behaviour.

Contributions are from a wide range of disciplines - psychology, medicine, psychiatry, ethology, nutrition, genetics and family studies.