title: Puberty as a biological and social event: implications for research on pharmacology.
abstract: Pubertal processes take place against a backdrop of multiple changes in other domains. How pubertal processes intersect with social events may place some adolescents at risk for a variety of health-related behaviors, such as substance use, eating problems and/or excessive levels of exercise, depressed affect, smoking, and drinking. All of these behaviors may influence compliance in a drug trial as well as the physiological response to a specific pharmacological treatment.
authors.affiliation: Adolescent Study Program, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brooks-Gunn
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Graber
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D002648:Child; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010600:Pharmacology; D005082:Physical Exertion; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology; D012107:Research Design; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012907:Smoking