Adolescent Brain Development
Implications for Behavior
- 1st Edition - July 23, 2012
- Latest edition
- Authors: Michelle K. Jetha, Sidney Segalowitz
- Language: English
This comprehensive yet brief overview of the adolescent human brain discusses how the brain develops during this critical period of life and how that development impacts de… Read more
This comprehensive yet brief overview of the adolescent human brain discusses how the brain develops during this critical period of life and how that development impacts decision-making and risk-taking behavior in the adolescent.
- This originated as a white paper requested by the Canadian government for a specific group looking to understand adolescent brain development in the context of adolescent behaviour
- The paper was not made available to the Canadian government outside of the specific task force that requested it nor to the general public
Researchers, policy makers, and interested lay people on the development of the adolescent brain and its impact on decision making and behavior in the adolescent. This may include developmental psychologists, cognitive psychologists, neuropsychologists, neuroscientists, and clinical psychologists
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Structural Brain Development in Late Childhood, Adolescence, and Early Adulthood
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Anatomical Changes
1.3 Summary
Chapter 2. Connectivity
2.1 Changes in Networks Over Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood
2.2 How are Changes in Connectivity Related to Development in the Cognitive Domain?
2.3 Implications
Chapter 3. Social and Emotional Development
3.1 The Development of Social Information Processing
3.2 Models of Social Behavior
3.3 Aggression
3.4 Individual Differences in Social Behavior: A Personality Perspective
Chapter 4. How Genes and Environment Work Together to Influence Brain Growth and Behavior
4.1 Genetic Effects on Brain Growth
4.2 A Broad Range of Experiential Factors Influence Brain Development
4.3 Implications: The Bottom Line
Summary and Implications
Reference
"...provides an important overview of the development of the brain during adolescence…Aimed at health care practitioners, parents, college students, and more, this overview links research to real-world issues and questions in the field."—Journal of Youth and Adolescence
"Aimed at healthcare practitioners, community workers, college students, and parents, this volume summarizes the research literature on the adolescent brain and implications for social and emotional behavior, with the goal of providing an accessible overview that links research to real-world issues and controversies in the field."—Reference and Research Book News, December 2012
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: July 23, 2012
- Language: English
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Michelle K. Jetha
Michelle Jetha is a research associate of the Brock University Centre for Lifespan Development Research, works in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab, and teaches at McMaster and Brock Universities. She completed her PhD in 2007, examining electrophysiological responses to social and affective stimuli in individuals with schizophrenia or autism. She has published extensively on these topics, a major review of adolescent EEG/ERP development, and most recently on how shyness influences early brain responses to emotional face stimuli. Jetha completed postdoctoral work at Pennsylvania State University which focused on the identification of trait factors that predispose children to disruptive behavioral disorders. She is currently conducting research with adolescents in collaboration with a Niagara regional mental health agency. Her focus is translational neuroscience involving developmental psychopathology.
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Sidney Segalowitz
Sid Segalowitz has been a professor at Brock University since 1974, during which time he has taught in the Psychology Department and the Centre for Neuroscience and in 2007 became the founding Director of the Jack and Nora Walker Centre for Lifespan Development Research at that institution. He is also Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Brock University and focuses his research on psychophysiological indicators of brain functions reflective of self-regulation of information and affective processing, especially as this relates to personality and development through childhood and adolescence. He has been Editor of the Elsevier journal Brain and Cognition since 2002.
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