adolescence
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Further analysis showed that this hotspot does not exist early in life and instead emerges during adolescence.
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Biological sleep rhythms, known as circadian rhythms, naturally change during adolescence.
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Nearsightedness typically develops between ages 3 and 10, when the eyeballs are rapidly growing, though it can progress during adolescence and young adulthood.
In these photos, we find artifacts of childhood mixed with the detritus of adolescence.
The brain’s adolescence phase, they discovered, lasts until age 32, and then it enters a period of stability until early aging begins at 66.
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