Longitudinal change in resting-state functional brain connectivity associated with secondary sexual characteristics between ages 11 and 13 years.
Pubertal maturation drives brain development, yet longitudinal evidence linking it to resting-state functional connectivity (rs-FC) in early adolescence remains limited, and adolescent mental-health trajectories differ by sex, motivating sex-specific analyses. In a general-population cohort (255 adolescents scanned at...