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A structure in the higher portion of the brain that monitors eating, drinking, and sex.
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An important endocrine gland that controls growth and regulates other glands.
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Powerful chemical substances secreted by the endocrine glands and carried through the body by the bloodstream.
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Diseases that are contracted primarily through sexual contact, which is not limited to sexual intercourse.
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An eating disorder that involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation.
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First menstruation
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An eating disorder in which the individual consistently follows a binge-and-purge pattern.
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A period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence.
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Piaget's formal operational concept that adolescents have the cognitive ability to develop hypotheses, or best guesses, about ways to solve problems, such as an algebraic equation.
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The testes in the males and the ovaries in the female (sex glands)
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