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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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Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain
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Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain Integrating Brain and Prevention Science
Edited by
Daniel Romer and Elaine F. Walker
A project of the Adolescent Risk Communication Institute of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
1 2007
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Preface
This book is the result of a conference held at the University of Pennsylvania on June 17–18, 2005, that brought together a distinguished group of researchers interested in brain development and mental health. The meeting was organized by the editors of this volume and Joan Bossert of Oxford University Press to provide an overview of the dramatic developments that have taken place in neuroscience,