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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... human adolescence (or at any other time of life). Nevertheless, there are notable commonalities between human adolescents and their counterparts in other mammalian species in terms of developmental history and genetic constraints, as ...
... human adolescence (or at any other time of life). Nevertheless, there are notable commonalities between human adolescents and their counterparts in other mammalian species in terms of developmental history and genetic constraints, as ...
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... human adolescents engaging in drunk driving, sex without contraception, use of illegal drugs, fighting, or other risk-taking behaviors (Irwin, 1989). Although adolescent-associated increases in risk-taking behaviors may have been highly ...
... human adolescents engaging in drunk driving, sex without contraception, use of illegal drugs, fighting, or other risk-taking behaviors (Irwin, 1989). Although adolescent-associated increases in risk-taking behaviors may have been highly ...
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... human adolescents have been observed in adolescents of other mammalian species as well. For instance, volumetric declines in PFC gray matter have been reported not only in humans (e.g., Sowell et al., 1999) but also in rats (van Eden et ...
... human adolescents have been observed in adolescents of other mammalian species as well. For instance, volumetric declines in PFC gray matter have been reported not only in humans (e.g., Sowell et al., 1999) but also in rats (van Eden et ...
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... humans that the adolescent amygdala may be a particularly intriguing and important area for ontogenetic investigation. This ... human adolescents likewise is suggestive of developmental alterations in amygdala function during adolescence ...
... humans that the adolescent amygdala may be a particularly intriguing and important area for ontogenetic investigation. This ... human adolescents likewise is suggestive of developmental alterations in amygdala function during adolescence ...
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... human adolescents (e.g., Shedler & Block, 1990). Adolescents of other species such as the rat likewise often drink ... humans are just beginning to relate specific components of the neural circuitry undergoing change during adolescence ...
... human adolescents (e.g., Shedler & Block, 1990). Adolescents of other species such as the rat likewise often drink ... humans are just beginning to relate specific components of the neural circuitry undergoing change during adolescence ...
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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