Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain Integrating Brain and Prevention Science

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 behaviour 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.

1 - The Developing Brain and Adolescent-typical Behavior Patterns: An Evolutionary Approach
2 - Competence, Resilience and Development in Adolescence: Clues for Prevention Science
3 - Mapping Adolescent Brain Maturation Using Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging
4 - The Metamorphosis: Individuation of the Adolescent Brain
5 - Transcriptional Regulation in Schizophrenia
6 - Stress Effects on the Developing Brain
7 - Maternal Programming of Defensive Responses Through Sustained Effects on Gene Expression
8 - Neuropeptides and the Development of Social Behaviors: Implications for Adolescent Psychopathology
9 - Effects of Early Deprivation on Brain Behavioral Development: The Bucharest Early Intervention Project
10 - Social Stress, Affect, and Neural Function in Adolescence
11 - Stress-induced Pathophysiology within the Schizophrenia Patient Brain: A Model for the Delayed Onset of Psychosis and its Circumvention by Anxiolytic Agents
12 - Neurohormones, Neurodevelopment and the Prodrome of Psychosis in Adolescence
13 - The Adolescent Surge in Depression and Emergence of Gender Differences: A Biocognitive Vulnerability - Stress Model in Developmental Context
14 - Early Identification and Prevention of Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder
15 - Resilience and Vulnerability to Trauma: Psychobiological Mechanisms
16 - The Developing Adolescent Brain in Socioeconomic Context
17 - Brain Development as a vulnerability Factor in the Etiology of Substance Abuse and Addiction
18 - Modifying Brain Networks Underlying Self Regulation
19 - The BrainWise Curriculum: Neurocognitive Development Intervention Program
20 - The Role of Preventive Interventions in Enhancing Neurocognitive Functioning and Promoting Competence in Adolescence