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Adolescent Brain Development: A Period of Vulnerabilities and Opportunities. Keynote Address
Author(s) -
DAHL RONALD E.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1308.001
Subject(s) - period (music) , set (abstract data type) , context (archaeology) , brain development , intervention (counseling) , developmental psychology , psychology , adolescent development , conceptual framework , affect (linguistics) , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , sociology , social science , computer science , biology , psychiatry , communication , paleontology , physics , acoustics , programming language
A bstract : This article introduces and summarizes the goals of the symposium. It also provides an overview of a conceptual framework for understanding adolescence, which emphasizes how the very nature of this developmental transition requires an interdisciplinary approach—one that focuses on brain/behavior/social‐context interactions during this important maturational period. More specifically it describes a set of neurobehavioral changes that appear to be linked to pubertal development, which appear to have a significant effect on motivation and emotion, and considers these puberty‐specific changes in affect in relation to a much larger set of developmental changes in adolescence. This framework is used to argue for the need for a transdisciplinary dialogue that brings together work in several areas of neuroscience (including animal models) and normal development with clinical and social policy research aimed at early intervention and prevention strategies.