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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... Early Deprivation on Brain-Behavioral Development: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project Charles A. Nelson III, Charles H. Zeanah, and Nathan A. Fox Part IV: Effects of Stress and Other Environmental Influences During Adolescence 10 ...
... Early Deprivation on Brain-Behavioral Development: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project Charles A. Nelson III, Charles H. Zeanah, and Nathan A. Fox Part IV: Effects of Stress and Other Environmental Influences During Adolescence 10 ...
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... early alcohol exposure. It also suggests that variation in brain structure is linked to cognitive performance such as measured by intelligence tests. Don Tucker and Lyda Moller present a novel synthesis of what is known about brain ...
... early alcohol exposure. It also suggests that variation in brain structure is linked to cognitive performance such as measured by intelligence tests. Don Tucker and Lyda Moller present a novel synthesis of what is known about brain ...
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... early stressors can influence this system as the child develops. She also reviews research suggesting that adverse effects on the stress response system produced by neglectful parenting can be reversed by subsequent more responsive care ...
... early stressors can influence this system as the child develops. She also reviews research suggesting that adverse effects on the stress response system produced by neglectful parenting can be reversed by subsequent more responsive care ...
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... early adolescent peaks in D1, D2, and D4 receptors that are about greater than those seen in early adulthood (Tarazi et al., 1998, 1999) contrasting with other data reporting no notable overproduction and pruning in this region (Teicher ...
... early adolescent peaks in D1, D2, and D4 receptors that are about greater than those seen in early adulthood (Tarazi et al., 1998, 1999) contrasting with other data reporting no notable overproduction and pruning in this region (Teicher ...
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... early in adolescence, young adolescents likewise might pursue novelty, drugs, and other stimuli to counter a mild and partial anhedonia. Indeed, reports of feeling “very happy” drop by 50% between childhood and early adolescence, with ...
... early in adolescence, young adolescents likewise might pursue novelty, drugs, and other stimuli to counter a mild and partial anhedonia. Indeed, reports of feeling “very happy” drop by 50% between childhood and early adolescence, with ...
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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