Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain: Integrating Brain and Prevention Science
Daniel Romer and Elaine F. Walker
Abstract
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 book on this interdisciplinary area. Contributors were asked to address two questions: What neurodevelopmental processes ... More
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 book on this interdisciplinary area. 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 deals with the following: 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.
Keywords:
environmental influences,
genetic influences,
neurodevelopmental processes,
mental disorders,
life experiences,
maltreatment,
stress,
brain development
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195306255 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306255.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Daniel Romer, editor
University of Pennsylvania
Elaine F. Walker, editor
Emory University
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