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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... Risk Communication Institute (ARCI) that sponsored the meeting. We owe a special debt to the Penn Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, headed by Irwin Levitan and Charles O'Brien. They provided valuable suggestions for the ...
... Risk Communication Institute (ARCI) that sponsored the meeting. We owe a special debt to the Penn Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences, headed by Irwin Levitan and Charles O'Brien. They provided valuable suggestions for the ...
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... risk taking postulated to serve a number of adaptive functions, such as increasing the probability of reproductive success in males of a variety of species, including humans (Wilson & Daly, 1985). Risk taking may also be adaptive for ...
... risk taking postulated to serve a number of adaptive functions, such as increasing the probability of reproductive success in males of a variety of species, including humans (Wilson & Daly, 1985). Risk taking may also be adaptive for ...
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... risk-taking behaviors may have been highly conserved in part because they served to facilitate emigration or otherwise enhance adaptive fitness during evolution, such risk taking bears considerable cost for some adolescents. There are ...
... risk-taking behaviors may have been highly conserved in part because they served to facilitate emigration or otherwise enhance adaptive fitness during evolution, such risk taking bears considerable cost for some adolescents. There are ...
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... Risk taking behaviors in the adolescent patient: Are they impulsive? Pediatric Annals, 18, 122–133. Irwin, C. E., Jr., & Millstein, S. G. (1992). Correlates and predictors of risk-taking behavior during adolescence. In L. P. Lipsitt ...
... Risk taking behaviors in the adolescent patient: Are they impulsive? Pediatric Annals, 18, 122–133. Irwin, C. E., Jr., & Millstein, S. G. (1992). Correlates and predictors of risk-taking behavior during adolescence. In L. P. Lipsitt ...
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... risk taking: Causes and consequences (pp. 199–217). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Silveri, M. M., & Spear, L. P. (2002). The effects of NMDA and GABAA pharmacological manipulations on ethanol sensitivity in immature and mature animals. Alcoholism ...
... risk taking: Causes and consequences (pp. 199–217). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Silveri, M. M., & Spear, L. P. (2002). The effects of NMDA and GABAA pharmacological manipulations on ethanol sensitivity in immature and mature animals. Alcoholism ...
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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