The Teenage Brain: Social Reorientation and the Adolescent Brain-The Role of Gonadal Hormones in the Male Syrian Hamster

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 128-133

  de Lorme, Kayla ^a   Bell, Margaret R ^a   Sisk, Cheryl L ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; puberty; social behavior; social reward; testosterone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876262005     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721413479607     Document Type: Review

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