Adolescence

Adolescence is characterized by the wonderful phenomenon of puberty, which is one the most wonderful developmental phenomenon you can observe in the human development, seconds only to the intra uterine development of embryo and fetus. it is a process in which a child body is converted into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.

Initiation of these changes is due to the activation of hypothalamic pituitary gonadal axis, which is the axis of controlling all these changes. What keeps this axis from activating it self in the childhood is still a point of debate. Though some scientists suggests that it is due to a completion of a maturation process in another part of the brain, numerous practical implications in this area has lead more and more scientists to make this area their playground.