Adolescent Brain Development

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. 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.

"...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

• 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