Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain

"Romer and Walker have done an excellent job of pulling together several themes which capture the miltidisciplinary nature of the relationship between adolescent psychopathology and brain development...The book is suitable for use in an advanced undergraduate or graduate class, but is also meaty enough for consumption by professional researchers...If one does read the chapters in the order presented, there is a fair amount of shifting back and forth betweenthose that highlight neuroscience findings and those with a more psychosocial point of view...this is an organizational stroke of genius...a text whose appearance is long overdue."--Journal of YouthAdolescence"Romer and Walker have done an excellent job of pulling together several themes which capture the miltidisciplinary nature of the relationship between adolescent psychopathology and brain development...The book is suitable for use in an advanced undergraduate or graduate class, but is also meaty enough for consumption by professional researchers...If one does read the chapters in the order presented, there is a fair amount of shifting back and forth betweenthose that highlight neuroscience findings and those with a more psychosocial point of view...this is an organizational stroke of genius...a text whose appearance is long overdue."--Journal of YouthAdolescence

• SECTION 1: BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL UNIVERSALS IN DEVELOPMENT; SECTION 2: CHARACTERISTICS OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR IN DEVELOPMENT; SECTION 3: EFFECTS OF EARLY MALTREATMENT AND STRESS ON BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; SECTION 4: EFFECTS OF STRESS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES DURING ADOLESCENCE; SECTION 5: REVERSIBLE DISORDERS OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; SECTION 6: EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS FOR ENHANCED NEUROCOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT