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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Page 17
... animals have revealed complementary alterations in the rates of DA synthesis and turnover in mesolimbic/striatal (e.g., n.Acc and striatal) and mesocortical (e.g., PFC) brain regions during adolescence (Andersen et al., 1997; Teicher et ...
... animals have revealed complementary alterations in the rates of DA synthesis and turnover in mesolimbic/striatal (e.g., n.Acc and striatal) and mesocortical (e.g., PFC) brain regions during adolescence (Andersen et al., 1997; Teicher et ...
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... animals and in humans that the adolescent amygdala may be a particularly intriguing and important area for ... animals (Teresawa & Timiras, 1968) and exhibits a different pattern of stress-induced activation of the immediate early gene c ...
... animals and in humans that the adolescent amygdala may be a particularly intriguing and important area for ... animals (Teresawa & Timiras, 1968) and exhibits a different pattern of stress-induced activation of the immediate early gene c ...
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... animal models and increasing availability of higher field strength magnetic resonance scanners with their greater spatial resolution should ultimately help resolve frustrating inconsistencies in this literature. Summary and Other ...
... animal models and increasing availability of higher field strength magnetic resonance scanners with their greater spatial resolution should ultimately help resolve frustrating inconsistencies in this literature. Summary and Other ...
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... animals, and it remains to be determined how well these findings represent developmental events occurring in human adolescents. Nevertheless, given the developmental transformations that occur in mesocorticolimbic circuitry, it would be ...
... animals, and it remains to be determined how well these findings represent developmental events occurring in human adolescents. Nevertheless, given the developmental transformations that occur in mesocorticolimbic circuitry, it would be ...
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... animals and using fMRI techniques in humans are just beginning to relate specific components of the neural circuitry undergoing change during adolescence to expression of typical behaviors of adolescents as well as their cognitive ...
... animals and using fMRI techniques in humans are just beginning to relate specific components of the neural circuitry undergoing change during adolescence to expression of typical behaviors of adolescents as well as their cognitive ...
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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