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Behavioral characteristics of adolescents as determined by brain neurophysiological and neurochemical processes during puberty are reviewed.

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Original Russian Text © N.V. Dubrovinskaya, 2015, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 113–122.

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Dubrovinskaya, N.V. Psychophysiological features of adolescents. Hum Physiol 41, 209–217 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119715020061

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