Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention ScienceDaniel Romer, Elaine F. Walker Recent 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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... Disorders, published by Oxford University Press. The work of the commissions that produced the book led her to recognize that we are at the threshold of a newly emerging understanding of brain development that would have important ...
... Disorders, published by Oxford University Press. The work of the commissions that produced the book led her to recognize that we are at the threshold of a newly emerging understanding of brain development that would have important ...
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... Disorders (Evans et al., 2005, Oxford University Press). 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 ...
... Disorders (Evans et al., 2005, Oxford University Press). 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 ...
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... disorder and instill resilience for the future. Many mental disorders have deleterious effects on brain structure with lasting consequences for subsequent adaptive behavior. If these changes can be identified and understood, it may be ...
... disorder and instill resilience for the future. Many mental disorders have deleterious effects on brain structure with lasting consequences for subsequent adaptive behavior. If these changes can be identified and understood, it may be ...
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... disorders as schizophrenia. In part III, we focus on the effects of maltreatment and stress during early development and the consequences for the developing brain and later susceptibility to mental disorder. In the first chapter in this ...
... disorders as schizophrenia. In part III, we focus on the effects of maltreatment and stress during early development and the consequences for the developing brain and later susceptibility to mental disorder. In the first chapter in this ...
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... disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, personality disorder, and schizophrenia. Patricia Gorman Barry and Marilyn Welsh have been developing a program for grades K–12 that teaches emotional and cognitive control ...
... disorders, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, personality disorder, and schizophrenia. Patricia Gorman Barry and Marilyn Welsh have been developing a program for grades K–12 that teaches emotional and cognitive control ...
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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