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Best friends forever? How adolescent brain reacts to good friends
During adolescence, some young people have stable best-friend relationships, while others change best friends frequently. Development psychologist Lisa Schreuders has studied the brains of young adolescents: ‘It seems that friendships in your early years can have consequences for your friendships later in life.’ Her article on the research, written together with Berna Güroğlu and other colleagues, has been published in Nature Communications.
‘There’s a lot going on in adolescence,’ Schreuders explains. ‘Friendships become closer, and the nature of these friendships also changes. We wanted to find out whether we could identify different development paths from a neuroscientific perspective. Or, in other words, how do the brains of young people who have stable best friendships react differently from young people with unstable best friendships?’