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Posted on 27/08/03

Scientists want to peer inside teenagers' brains

SCIENCE REPORTER

Wanted: 120 10-year-olds willing to undergo periodic brain scans to learn what goes on in their heads during puberty.Tomas Paus, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute, has begun one of the most ambitious studies ever undertaken about what happens to the human brain during adolescence. He and his colleagues hope that young volunteers will help them learn more about what up until now has been mostly uncharted territory for researchers and parents alike.

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