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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... normal and abnormal brain development and its implications for interventions to prevent psychopathology. The organizers felt, however, that a successful meeting would require the participation of not only neuroscientists but also those ...
... normal and abnormal brain development and its implications for interventions to prevent psychopathology. The organizers felt, however, that a successful meeting would require the participation of not only neuroscientists but also those ...
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... normal course of development and hence to resume a life free of mental disorder. This possibility is an exciting alternative to the present status of interventions that merely treat symptoms without lasting changes in the brain that can ...
... normal course of development and hence to resume a life free of mental disorder. This possibility is an exciting alternative to the present status of interventions that merely treat symptoms without lasting changes in the brain that can ...
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... normal families can reverse some of the adverse effects of this early traumatic experience on brain development and behavior. In part IV, we turn to the effects of stress and other environmental hazards experienced during adolescence ...
... normal families can reverse some of the adverse effects of this early traumatic experience on brain development and behavior. In part IV, we turn to the effects of stress and other environmental hazards experienced during adolescence ...
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... Normal and Atypical Adolescent Behaviors Adolescent sculpting in PFC and interconnected regions such as the cerebellum is seemingly related to the gradual emergence of mature cognitive capacities, including improvements observed during ...
... Normal and Atypical Adolescent Behaviors Adolescent sculpting in PFC and interconnected regions such as the cerebellum is seemingly related to the gradual emergence of mature cognitive capacities, including improvements observed during ...
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... Normal developmental alterations in brain occurring during adolescence may influence expression of psychopathology in vulnerable individuals. Along with well-known examples of adolescent-associated emergence of overt symptomatology such ...
... Normal developmental alterations in brain occurring during adolescence may influence expression of psychopathology in vulnerable individuals. Along with well-known examples of adolescent-associated emergence of overt symptomatology such ...
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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