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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... neurons are generated in certain locations in brain throughout life (Eriksson et al., 1998), potentially providing continued opportunities for some remodeling and plasticity. Within this framework of a developmentally dynamic brain ...
... neurons are generated in certain locations in brain throughout life (Eriksson et al., 1998), potentially providing continued opportunities for some remodeling and plasticity. Within this framework of a developmentally dynamic brain ...
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... neurons estimated in some cortical regions during adolescence in the brain of nonhuman primates (Bourgeois et al., 1994; Rakic et al., 1994). A similar decline in synaptic density is seen in human neocortex between 7 and 16 years ...
... neurons estimated in some cortical regions during adolescence in the brain of nonhuman primates (Bourgeois et al., 1994; Rakic et al., 1994). A similar decline in synaptic density is seen in human neocortex between 7 and 16 years ...
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... neurons and their associated support cells (glia) requires oxygen. Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging can be used to noninvasively identify regions of enhanced oxygen utilization, and hence presumably enhanced neuronal ...
... neurons and their associated support cells (glia) requires oxygen. Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging can be used to noninvasively identify regions of enhanced oxygen utilization, and hence presumably enhanced neuronal ...
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... axon terminal. The implications of this may not have been fully considered to date. Speed isn't everything, with many axonal systems in brain (e.g., intrinsic circuitry interconnecting neurons within a 14 BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNIVERSALS.
... axon terminal. The implications of this may not have been fully considered to date. Speed isn't everything, with many axonal systems in brain (e.g., intrinsic circuitry interconnecting neurons within a 14 BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNIVERSALS.
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... neurons within a given brain region) never becoming myelinated. Moreover, neurons are exquisitely sensitive to the timing of input (with, for example, glutaminergic activation of NMDA receptors requiring co-occurring depolarization ...
... neurons within a given brain region) never becoming myelinated. Moreover, neurons are exquisitely sensitive to the timing of input (with, for example, glutaminergic activation of NMDA receptors requiring co-occurring depolarization ...
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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