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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 81
Page v
... volume and Joan Bossert of Oxford University Press to provide an overview of the dramatic developments that have taken place in neuroscience, especially in regard to our understanding of normal and abnormal brain development and its ...
... volume and Joan Bossert of Oxford University Press to provide an overview of the dramatic developments that have taken place in neuroscience, especially in regard to our understanding of normal and abnormal brain development and its ...
Page vi
... volume Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, published by Oxford University Press. The work of the commissions that produced the book led her to recognize that we are at the threshold of a newly emerging ...
... volume Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders, published by Oxford University Press. The work of the commissions that produced the book led her to recognize that we are at the threshold of a newly emerging ...
Page 3
... volume is the culmination of this effort. We hope that readers with a background in neuroscience will find it as useful as those with an interest only in the healthy development of children. In part I of the volume, we focus on the ...
... volume is the culmination of this effort. We hope that readers with a background in neuroscience will find it as useful as those with an interest only in the healthy development of children. In part I of the volume, we focus on the ...
Page 5
... provide two human brain diagrams designed by Eian More to help readers locate the important brain centers discussed in this volume (see Appendix B). This page intentionally left blank Part I Biological and Social Introduction 5.
... provide two human brain diagrams designed by Eian More to help readers locate the important brain centers discussed in this volume (see Appendix B). This page intentionally left blank Part I Biological and Social Introduction 5.
Page 9
... volume continue in neocortical regions well into adulthood (Sowell et al., 2003) and that modest numbers of new neurons are generated in certain locations in brain throughout life (Eriksson et al., 1998), potentially providing continued ...
... volume continue in neocortical regions well into adulthood (Sowell et al., 2003) and that modest numbers of new neurons are generated in certain locations in brain throughout life (Eriksson et al., 1998), potentially providing continued ...
Contents
1 | |
7 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain:Integrating Brain and ... Daniel Romer,Elaine F. Walker No preview available - 2007 |
Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and ... Daniel Romer,Elaine F. Walker No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
ability abnormalities activation adaptive adolescence adults alterations American amygdala animals anxiety assess associated attention behavior Biological bipolar brain central changes child childhood Clinical cognitive cortical cortisol decreased depression developmental differences disorders early effects emergence emotional et al evidence executive experience exposure expression factors figure findings frontal function gene genetic gray matter hippocampal hormones human important increased individuals influence interaction intervention involved Journal learning levels maternal maturation measures mechanisms medication memory mental mood negative neural neurons Neuroscience normal observed occur offspring parents patients patterns period positive potential prefrontal cortex Press prevention problems processes Psychiatry Psychology psychopathology rats recent receptor regions regulation resilience response risk role schizophrenia Sciences shown significant social specific stimulation stress structures studies suggest symptoms tasks tion treatment understanding volume vulnerability York young