Bookeditors, Philip Kumanov, Ashok Agarwal.
Contents:
1. Maturation and physiology of hypothalamic regulation of the gonadal axis
2. Genetics of puberty
3. Hormonal changes in childhood and puberty
4. Physical changes during pubertal transition
5. Growth in childhood and puberty
6. Bone development in children and adolescents
7. Body weight and puberty
8. The environmental factors and epigenetics of gametogenesis in puberty
9. Timing of puberty and secular trend in human maturation
10. Precocious puberty
11. Constitutional delayed puberty
12. Pubertal dysfunction: a disorder of GnRH pulsatility
13. Pubertal gynecomastia
14. Pubertal acne
15. Adolescent varicocele
16. Polycystic ovary syndrome in adolescent girls
17. Growth hormone and steroid assays' problems in childhood and puberty
18. Psychosocial development of adolescents with and without deviations
19. Substance use in adolescence
Index.