Starting puberty changes the brain and that start timing matters. At 9-11 years old, girls are already experiencing these changes strongly.
Excited to share our new preprint “Functional brain network correlates of pubertal timing and depressive symptoms in preadolescence” doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.22.727009
We examined how pubertal timing relates to whole-brain functional connectivity and depression risk in >9,000 youth (ABCD Study)
