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. |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 85
Page 31
... risk, competence, and resilience in developmental psychopathology. The search for understanding the etiology of mental illnesses and problems gave rise to research on resilience, as well as the integrative science of developmental ...
... risk, competence, and resilience in developmental psychopathology. The search for understanding the etiology of mental illnesses and problems gave rise to research on resilience, as well as the integrative science of developmental ...
Page 32
... risk researchers soon began to note that individuals with the same kind of risks had very different outcomes, and that some children from disastrous backgrounds grew up to be highly competent and healthy adults, that many disorders had ...
... risk researchers soon began to note that individuals with the same kind of risks had very different outcomes, and that some children from disastrous backgrounds grew up to be highly competent and healthy adults, that many disorders had ...
Page 33
... risk and resilience to identify clues about what matters for adolescents at risk and the implications of these clues for resiliencefocused theory and intervention. The concluding section highlights the transitions into and out of ...
... risk and resilience to identify clues about what matters for adolescents at risk and the implications of these clues for resiliencefocused theory and intervention. The concluding section highlights the transitions into and out of ...
Page 38
... Risk or Adversity More than 3 decades ago, resilience research pioneers were inspired by the possibility that studying resilience would inform ... Risk in Resilience Research Risk generally refers to an 38 BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNIVERSALS.
... Risk or Adversity More than 3 decades ago, resilience research pioneers were inspired by the possibility that studying resilience would inform ... Risk in Resilience Research Risk generally refers to an 38 BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNIVERSALS.
Page 39
... risk factors, including genetic risk, have been studied in resilience research. In risk and resilience studies to date, genetic risk has been measured most often by status markers, such as having a parent with a heritable disorder or ...
... risk factors, including genetic risk, have been studied in resilience research. In risk and resilience studies to date, genetic risk has been measured most often by status markers, such as having a parent with a heritable disorder or ...
Contents
1 | |
7 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain:Integrating Brain and ... Daniel Romer,Elaine F. Walker No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
abnormalities Abramson activation ADHD adolescence adolescent brain adulthood adults alcohol amygdala anxiety disorders assess associated attention BDNF Biological Psychiatry bipolar disorder brain development brain regions Brain Research BrainWise Carter changes child childhood chronic Clinical cognitive vulnerability correlates cortical cortisol cortisol levels decreased deficits depression developmental differences dopamine drug early effects emotional environment executive function exposure factors frontal genetic Giedd glucocorticoid gray matter gray matter density hippocampal hormones HPA axis human increased individuals interaction intervention Journal of Psychiatry LG-ABN limbic lobe locus coeruleus Masten maternal maturation Meaney mediated medication memory mental mood mRNA negative neural neurobiology neurocognitive neurons Neuroscience nucleus offspring onset oxytocin parents patients patterns potential prairie voles prefrontal cortex prevention processes protein Psychology psychopathology rats receptor regulation resilience risk role schizophrenia Sciences serotonin serotonin transporter Sowell stimulation stressors structures studies suggest symptoms synaptic tion trauma treatment vasopressin volume