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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... Masten Part II: Characteristics of Brain and Behavior in Development 3 Mapping Adolescent Brain Maturation Using Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Elizabeth R. Sowell, Paul M. Thompson, and Arthur W. Toga 31 55 4 The Metamorphosis ...
... Masten Part II: Characteristics of Brain and Behavior in Development 3 Mapping Adolescent Brain Maturation Using Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Elizabeth R. Sowell, Paul M. Thompson, and Arthur W. Toga 31 55 4 The Metamorphosis ...
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... Masten reviews the vast literature that has accumulated in recent decades on the characteristics of resilient youth and the factors that enable young people to face both external and internal challenges to their healthy development. She ...
... Masten reviews the vast literature that has accumulated in recent decades on the characteristics of resilient youth and the factors that enable young people to face both external and internal challenges to their healthy development. She ...
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... Masten During the past 30 years, a dramatic transformation has occurred in research concerned with the origins and prevention of mental health problems as developmental psychopathology emerged. Developmental psychopathology (DP) can be ...
... Masten During the past 30 years, a dramatic transformation has occurred in research concerned with the origins and prevention of mental health problems as developmental psychopathology emerged. Developmental psychopathology (DP) can be ...
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... Masten & Gewirtz, 2006). Investigators who wanted to study the origins of mental health problems began to study “high-risk” cohorts of children and youth, in hopes of learning enough about the causes and consequences of mental disorders ...
... Masten & Gewirtz, 2006). Investigators who wanted to study the origins of mental health problems began to study “high-risk” cohorts of children and youth, in hopes of learning enough about the causes and consequences of mental disorders ...
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... (Masten, Burt, & Coatsworth, 2006) Competence develops and has a normative course, as well as multiple dimensions and individual differences. Normatively in the human population, competence would be expected to improve over the course of ...
... (Masten, Burt, & Coatsworth, 2006) Competence develops and has a normative course, as well as multiple dimensions and individual differences. Normatively in the human population, competence would be expected to improve over the course of ...
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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