A developmental neuroscience perspective on youth contributions and challenges in a changing society

Kathy T Do¹, Suzanne van de Groep², Eveline A Crone², Christian K Tamnes³

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¹ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; School of Education and Information Studies, California Institute on Law, Neuroscience, and Education, UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Electronic address: kathydo@ucla.edu.
² Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
³ PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

PMID: 40254497
PMCID: PMC12190688
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101558

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A developmental neuroscience perspective on youth contributions and challenges in a changing society

Kathy T Do et al. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun:73:101558.

doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101558. Epub 2025 Apr 9.

Authors

Kathy T Do¹, Suzanne van de Groep², Eveline A Crone², Christian K Tamnes³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; School of Education and Information Studies, California Institute on Law, Neuroscience, and Education, UC|CSU Collaborative for Neuroscience, Diversity, and Learning, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Electronic address: kathydo@ucla.edu.
² Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
³ PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

PMID: 40254497
PMCID: PMC12190688
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101558

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Keywords: Adolescence; Brain development; Childhood; Neuroscience; Society.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper

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