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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... synaptic connections in certain brain regions, and ultimately transform the more energy utilizing, seemingly less efficient brain of the child into a more rapidly communicative and more energy efficient brain of the adult (for review ...
... synaptic connections in certain brain regions, and ultimately transform the more energy utilizing, seemingly less efficient brain of the child into a more rapidly communicative and more energy efficient brain of the adult (for review ...
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... synaptic pruning during adolescence have yet to be determined. More synapses are not necessarily better, with some forms of mental retardation associated with elevated numbers of synapses (GoldmanRakic et al., 1983). Indeed ...
... synaptic pruning during adolescence have yet to be determined. More synapses are not necessarily better, with some forms of mental retardation associated with elevated numbers of synapses (GoldmanRakic et al., 1983). Indeed ...
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... synapses during adolescence, along with a decline in synaptic connections supporting reverberating circuitry in certain cortex regions, could also support a reduction or refinement in brain effort at this time. Indeed, it is interesting ...
... synapses during adolescence, along with a decline in synaptic connections supporting reverberating circuitry in certain cortex regions, could also support a reduction or refinement in brain effort at this time. Indeed, it is interesting ...
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... synaptic) and functional ontogeny of the brain during adolescence is embedded within a literature documenting maturation of structural components of the brain from childhood through adolescence and well into adulthood, with generally ...
... synaptic) and functional ontogeny of the brain during adolescence is embedded within a literature documenting maturation of structural components of the brain from childhood through adolescence and well into adulthood, with generally ...
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... synaptic pruning seen in these regions during adolescence but also to ontogenetic increases in white matter (Sowell et al., 1999), with overall cerebral volume remaining approximately the same from about the age of 5 years onward (see ...
... synaptic pruning seen in these regions during adolescence but also to ontogenetic increases in white matter (Sowell et al., 1999), with overall cerebral volume remaining approximately the same from about the age of 5 years onward (see ...
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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