adolescence

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The second epoch, adolescence, is marked by continued growth of white matter.

From Science Daily

Unsurprisingly adolescence starts around the onset of puberty, but this is the latest evidence suggesting it ends much later than we assumed.

From BBC

It was, he writes, “a childhood and adolescence not so much of abject poverty as of poverty of outlook, of ambition,” and the girl got out as soon as she could.

From The Wall Street Journal

"The contemporary hooded boy is at the threshold to adolescence, a time of turmoil and uncertainty," she said.

From BBC

Dr. Ash clearly doesn’t take his son’s career seriously, and in just a few days Jed seems to regress to a kind of sulky adolescence.

From Seattle Times