Michelle K. Jetha, Sidney Segalowitz

Adolescent Brain Development

Implications for Behavior

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Press
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2011-0-09656-4
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 197g
• ISBN-13: 9780123979162
• ISBN-10: 0123979161
• Artikelnr.: 36027198

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1: STRUCTURAL BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IN LATE CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENCE AND EARLY ADULTHOOD

CHAPTER 2: CONNECTIVITY

CHAPTER 3: SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 4: HOW GENES AND ENVIRONMENT WORK TOGETHER TO INFLUENCE BRAIN MORPHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS

Rezensionen

"...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