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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Page 13
... Levels of oxygen utilization have been used to index neural activation, given that activity of neurons and their associated support cells (glia) requires oxygen. Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging can be used to noninvasively ...
... Levels of oxygen utilization have been used to index neural activation, given that activity of neurons and their associated support cells (glia) requires oxygen. Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging can be used to noninvasively ...
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... levels considerably higher than those seen earlier or later in life (e.g., Rosenberg & Lewis, 1995). Studies in rats also have revealed developmental increases through adolescence in a number of measures of DA input to PFC, including DA ...
... levels considerably higher than those seen earlier or later in life (e.g., Rosenberg & Lewis, 1995). Studies in rats also have revealed developmental increases through adolescence in a number of measures of DA input to PFC, including DA ...
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... levels by late adolescence and adulthood, whereas DA synthesis and turnover estimates in n.Acc and DA turnover estimates in striatum conversely are lower early than late in adolescence (Anderson et al., 1997; Teicher et al., 1993; but ...
... levels by late adolescence and adulthood, whereas DA synthesis and turnover estimates in n.Acc and DA turnover estimates in striatum conversely are lower early than late in adolescence (Anderson et al., 1997; Teicher et al., 1993; but ...
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... levels of analysis (molecules to media), and longitudinal studies (Masten, 2006a). From the perspective of developmental psychopathology, if one seeks to understand or alter the mental health of adolescents, it is essential to consider ...
... levels of analysis (molecules to media), and longitudinal studies (Masten, 2006a). From the perspective of developmental psychopathology, if one seeks to understand or alter the mental health of adolescents, it is essential to consider ...
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... levels of analysis, has roots deep in the history of science and medicine. However, it was not until recent decades that conditions were ripe for this cross-cutting approach to take hold as the prevailing framework for the sciences ...
... levels of analysis, has roots deep in the history of science and medicine. However, it was not until recent decades that conditions were ripe for this cross-cutting approach to take hold as the prevailing framework for the sciences ...
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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