Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention ScienceRecent advances in our understanding of the human brain suggest that adolescence is a unique period of development during which both environmental and genetic influences can leave a lasting impression. To advance the goal of integrating brain and prevention science, two areas of research which do not usually communicate with one another, the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Adolescent Risk Communication Institute held a conference with the purpose of producing an integrated volume on this interdisciplinary area. Presenters/chapter contributors were asked to address two questions: What neurodevelopmental processes in children and adolescents could be altered so that mental disorders might be prevented? And what interventions or life experiences might be able to introduce such changes? The book has a 5-part structure: biological and social universals in development; characteristics of brain and behavior in development; effects of early maltreatment and stress on brain development; effects of stress and other environmental influences during adolescence on brain development; and reversible orders of brain development. The twenty chapters include contributions from some of the most well-known researchers in the area. |
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She headed the important work done by the Sunnylands Commissions on Adolescent Mental Health that resulted in the award-winning volume Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, published by Oxford University Press.
She headed the important work done by the Sunnylands Commissions on Adolescent Mental Health that resulted in the award-winning volume Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, published by Oxford University Press.
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This project synthesized the current state of knowledge about the emergence and course of major mental disorders in adolescence and what can be done to treat and prevent these illnesses. As part of this effort, it became clear that our ...
This project synthesized the current state of knowledge about the emergence and course of major mental disorders in adolescence and what can be done to treat and prevent these illnesses. As part of this effort, it became clear that our ...
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Many mental disorders have deleterious effects on brain structure with lasting consequences for subsequent adaptive ... permit the brain to return to its normal course of development and hence to resume a life free of mental disorder.
Many mental disorders have deleterious effects on brain structure with lasting consequences for subsequent adaptive ... permit the brain to return to its normal course of development and hence to resume a life free of mental disorder.
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We hoped that researchers from both traditions would be better able to bring about a synthesis of the implications of the new knowledge about brain development to the problem of designing preventative interventions for mental disorder.
We hoped that researchers from both traditions would be better able to bring about a synthesis of the implications of the new knowledge about brain development to the problem of designing preventative interventions for mental disorder.
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... the work that has been undertaken to explore the brain mechanisms involved in the development of bipolar disorder. ... that the new science of brain development presents for the eventual prevention of this and other disorders.
... the work that has been undertaken to explore the brain mechanisms involved in the development of bipolar disorder. ... that the new science of brain development presents for the eventual prevention of this and other disorders.
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Contents
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Characteristics of Brain and Behavior in Development | 53 |
Effects of Early Maltreatment and Stress on Brain Development | 125 |
Effects of Stress and Other Environmental Influences During Adolescence | 217 |
Reversible Disorders of Brain Development | 313 |
Educational Interventions for Enhanced Neurocognitive Development | 399 |
Conclusions | 463 |
Glossary | 475 |
Brain Locations | 490 |
Author Biographies | 492 |
Index | 501 |
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| Title | Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention Science |
| Editors | Daniel Romer, Elaine F. Walker |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0190294345, 9780190294342 |
| Length | 544 pages |
| Subjects | › › Medical / Neurology Psychology / Developmental / General |
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