It takes a while for the TPJ to develop, but by adulthood it lights up brightly in brain scanners when moral judgments run hot.
If a lack of growth hormone or very short stature is recognized before the bones stop growing, regular hormone injections may help a child reach a greater height by adulthood.
The NSPCC says the practice has no medical benefits but is motivated by cultural beliefs about preparing a girl for adulthood and marriage by making her "clean, chaste and faithful".
Henry is suddenly incapable of throwing accurately, undermined by paralytic self-consciousness, or, Harbach seems to be arguing, by the onset of adulthood itself.
And so kerosene, limestone, cedar, deep forest and wet leaves are the aromas of my deep familiar, of a place and a time where I was content and safe, unfettered by the obligations of adulthood, free.
By the time she reached adulthood, I had to get blunt with her about what she could use all her bull-headedness, moxie and talent to do.
Practice makes perfect, and so by the time the reach adulthood, the children of more affluent parents find that the skills needed to navigate college and the workplace come naturally to them.
Other factors linked to higher aggression and violence in adulthood include smoking and drinking by the mother before birth, complications during birth and poor nutrition early in life.
The early onset of obesity may bring severe health problems, such as kidney failure, by the time today's children reach adulthood.
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Dubbed "emerging adulthood, " it's marked by a reluctance to commit.
By following a large cohort from before birth to adulthood the project could provide new insight into rare conditions such as autism, congenital malformations, childhood cancer, type 1 diabetes, and asthma.
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They come to see their behavior as linked to a response in others, and they try desperately, even in adulthood, to produce a favorable response by attempting to read what the situation requires.
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These two developments provided the impetus for a major federal undertaking to examine the effects of early life exposures by following a large cohort of children from pregnancy to adulthood.
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Obama was raised largely by his maternal grandparents and spent much of his childhood and adulthood decoding stories he heard about Barack Obama Sr.
The 'changing timetable for adulthood' has, in many ways, become internalized by 20-somethings and their parents alike.
Many psychiatric disorders that are thought of as problems of adulthood actually often arise for the first time in adolescence and by examining the scans of his volunteers Prof Bullmore hopes to learn whether at their root these conditions are abnormalities in brain development.
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Growth hormone is a naturally occurring substance secreted by the brain that helps guide growth in childhood and maintain muscle mass during adulthood.
Yet many families apparently believe it is an essential part of initiation into adulthood and the only way to ensure their daughter is seen as "pure" and thus desirable by potential husbands.
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