… Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Janice M. Juraska,
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 603 E. Daniel Street, …

Previous studies have shown that the number of dendritic spines and synapses in hippocampal
CA1 stratum radiatum decreases more than 30% between the proestrus (high estrogen) …

Dendritic branching was studied in Golgi-stained neurons from frontolateral and temporal
cortex of rats reared for 30 days after weaning in complex, social, or isolated environments. In …

Neuroimaging studies have established that there are losses in the volume of gray matter in
certain cortical regions between adolescence and adulthood, with changes in the prefrontal …

A contested report of sex differences in the size of the splenium of the corpus callosum in
humans prompted the present examination of the corpus callosum in the rat. We have …

Adolescence, broadly defined as the period between childhood and adulthood, is characterized
by a variety of neuroanatomical and behavioral changes. In human adolescents, the …

There is recent evidence of continuing development throughout adolescence in two neural
areas involved in emotion and cognition, the basolateral amygdala (BLN) and the medial …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Puberty and Adolescence”. Sexual differentiation is
the process by which the nervous system becomes structurally and functionally dissimilar in …

This review is centered on anatomical sex differences in neuronal organization in parts of
the rat nervous system that are associated with “cognitive” rather than reproductive function: …

Male and female hooded rats were raised from weaning in either a complex or an isolated
environment in two separate replications. After one month, the brains were Golgi-Cox stained …