It is purely social transitioning before puberty, when hormones to suppress puberty – a treatment that is reversible – can be offered.
She also noted that female chimpanzees leave their social groups at puberty to join new groups.
Recently, brain imaging experiments have shown that these changes in social cognition post puberty are also related to brain development.
Cognitive factors may also play a role in facial preferences, including the development of social perception at puberty (McGivern et al. 2002), lifetime accumulation of perceptual and social experience (Jones et al. 2007), and brain aging (Coffey et al. 2001).
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Moreover, a multi-stage organizational model of sex-specific behavioral circuits is supported by elegant experiments in hamsters demonstrating profound rearrangements of circuits underlying social behaviors during puberty (Zehr et al., 2006).
This transition includes significant changes in physical development (puberty), social situation, and movement between grade levels; at that stage, children experience increased vulnerability to peer influence and other risk factors that can lead to deviant behavior [ 3, 4, 6, 39– 41].
For example, the early adolescent period has been identified as one which involves a combination of biological (e.g., puberty), social (e.g., increased role of the peer group), ecological (e.g., middle school), and cognitive (e.g., increased capacity for abstract thinking) changes as well as increased risk for certain disorders such as depression.
As these girls reached puberty, their social space narrowed as boys' expanded.
As new research and vocal parents—expand how we think about autism in girls, doctors are creating new services to meet their needs, from amending diagnostic tools to new guidebooks that help navigate puberty and social relationships.
