Accelerated longitudinal cortical thinning in adolescence

It remains unclear if changes of the cerebral cortex occur gradually from childhood to adulthood, or if adolescence marks a differential period of cortical development. In the current study of 90 healthy volunteers aged 5–32 years (48 females, 85 right handed) with 180 scans (2 scans for each participant with ~ 4 year gaps), thinning of overall mean thickness and across the four major cortical lobes bilaterally was observed across this full age...