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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... occur during this period has been characterized as a source of maladaptive behavior, such as heightened risk taking, rather than an opportunity for growth. The extensive pruning, especially in the prefrontal cortex, that continues ...
... occur during this period has been characterized as a source of maladaptive behavior, such as heightened risk taking, rather than an opportunity for growth. The extensive pruning, especially in the prefrontal cortex, that continues ...
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... occur in brain development from birth through adolescence that have implications for the prevention of mental disorder. Elizabeth R. Sowell, Paul M. Thompson, and Arthur W. Toga review the exciting work that they and others have been ...
... occur in brain development from birth through adolescence that have implications for the prevention of mental disorder. Elizabeth R. Sowell, Paul M. Thompson, and Arthur W. Toga review the exciting work that they and others have been ...
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... occurring prior to birth and during the early postnatal period is just one phase in its gradual elaboration and sculpting. During toddler- and childhood, developmental changes in brain continue to be elaborated (see Ornitz, 1996, for ...
... occurring prior to birth and during the early postnatal period is just one phase in its gradual elaboration and sculpting. During toddler- and childhood, developmental changes in brain continue to be elaborated (see Ornitz, 1996, for ...
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... occurring in adolescent brain may be critical for facilitating behavioral predispositions that benefit the adolescent at this time of transition from dependence to independence. Indeed, human adolescents and their counterparts in a ...
... occurring in adolescent brain may be critical for facilitating behavioral predispositions that benefit the adolescent at this time of transition from dependence to independence. Indeed, human adolescents and their counterparts in a ...
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... occurring depolarization-dependent changes induced by other ligand/receptor interactions; e.g., see Nestler et al., 2001, for review). Consequently, if converging input pathways vary in whether they become myelinated or in when that occurs ...
... occurring depolarization-dependent changes induced by other ligand/receptor interactions; e.g., see Nestler et al., 2001, for review). Consequently, if converging input pathways vary in whether they become myelinated or in when that occurs ...
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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