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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... executive function. In the conclusion, we provide a review of the major themes of the chapters and their implications for future research in this new and exciting field. We also discuss policy implications of the findings that ...
... executive function. In the conclusion, we provide a review of the major themes of the chapters and their implications for future research in this new and exciting field. We also discuss policy implications of the findings that ...
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... executive function (e.g., attention, response inhibition, working memory, and performance on delay tasks). In some instances, children have been reported to show activation in PFC that is less specific to the type of information, as ...
... executive function (e.g., attention, response inhibition, working memory, and performance on delay tasks). In some instances, children have been reported to show activation in PFC that is less specific to the type of information, as ...
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... executive function, response inhibition, attentional capacities, memory function (Casey et al., 2000; Luna et al., 2001; Pine et al., 2002), as well as emotional self-control (e.g., Dahl, 2001). Mesocorticolimbic brain regions ...
... executive function, response inhibition, attentional capacities, memory function (Casey et al., 2000; Luna et al., 2001; Pine et al., 2002), as well as emotional self-control (e.g., Dahl, 2001). Mesocorticolimbic brain regions ...
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... executive control and future orientation (facilitated by brain development and new capacity for executive functioning), opportunities (to leave home, join transformative new contexts such as the military, college, religious ...
... executive control and future orientation (facilitated by brain development and new capacity for executive functioning), opportunities (to leave home, join transformative new contexts such as the military, college, religious ...
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... executive functioning skills around this time, as well as growing knowledge, experience, physical prowess, and attractiveness, reaching the age of majority with its attending freedoms of action, the growing competence of friends and ...
... executive functioning skills around this time, as well as growing knowledge, experience, physical prowess, and attractiveness, reaching the age of majority with its attending freedoms of action, the growing competence of friends and ...
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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