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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... specific areas of the brain that might influence adolescent development. In the second chapter, Ann Masten reviews the vast literature that has accumulated in recent decades on the characteristics of resilient youth and the factors that ...
... specific areas of the brain that might influence adolescent development. In the second chapter, Ann Masten reviews the vast literature that has accumulated in recent decades on the characteristics of resilient youth and the factors that ...
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... specific functional consequences is limited, this adolescent-associated synaptic elimination has been suggested to be a form of developmental plasticity by which the adolescent brain may be sculpted to match the environmental demands ...
... specific functional consequences is limited, this adolescent-associated synaptic elimination has been suggested to be a form of developmental plasticity by which the adolescent brain may be sculpted to match the environmental demands ...
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... in part in other species, studies in laboratory animals may provide clues as to specific alterations in circuitry within the PFC and associated networks during adolescence. When using Adolescent-Typical Behavior Patterns 15.
... in part in other species, studies in laboratory animals may provide clues as to specific alterations in circuitry within the PFC and associated networks during adolescence. When using Adolescent-Typical Behavior Patterns 15.
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... specific subregions (nuclei) with different, and sometimes opposing, functional influences (e.g., Swanson & Petrovich, 1998). The emerging literature in human adolescents likewise is suggestive of developmental alterations in amygdala ...
... specific subregions (nuclei) with different, and sometimes opposing, functional influences (e.g., Swanson & Petrovich, 1998). The emerging literature in human adolescents likewise is suggestive of developmental alterations in amygdala ...
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... specific amygdala nuclei (Zald, 2003). The latter point is particularly critical given the differing—and sometimes opposing —functional effects among specific subunits (nuclei) of the amygdala (Swanson & Petrovich, 1998). Thus, although ...
... specific amygdala nuclei (Zald, 2003). The latter point is particularly critical given the differing—and sometimes opposing —functional effects among specific subunits (nuclei) of the amygdala (Swanson & Petrovich, 1998). Thus, although ...
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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