J Addict Med. 2007 Sep;1(3):133-8. Han DH, Lee YS, Yang KC, Kim EY, Lyoo IK, Renshaw PF. Source From McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center and Department of Psychiatry (DHH, KCY, IKL, PFR), Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA; the Department of Psychiatry (YSL, EYK), Chung-Ang University Medical School, Seoul, South Korea; and the Department of […]
J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2005 Feb;26(1):61-7. Caskey JD, Rosenthal SL. Source School of Medicine and Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77555-0319, USA. Abstract Promotion of adolescent health requires well-designed scientific studies that determine the prevalence of the problem of interest, identify risk and resilience factors, and […]
THE ADOLESCENT BRAIN: A WORK IN PORGRESS By David R. Weinberger, Brita Elevag, Jay N. Giedd […]
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Neuroscience. 2011 Mar 10;176:296-307. Robinson DL, Zitzman DL, Smith KJ, Spear LP. Source Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies and Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27713, USA. [email protected] Abstract Subsecond fluctuations in dopamine (dopamine transients) in the nucleus accumbens are often time-locked to rewards and cues and provide an important learning […]
J Neurophysiol. 2012 Sep;108(6):1620-30. doi: 10.1152/jn.00077.2012. McCutcheon JE, Conrad KL, Carr SB, Ford KA, McGehee DS, Marinelli M. Source Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, Illinois, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adolescence may be a period of vulnerability to drug addiction. In rats, elevated firing activity of ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine […]
Nat Neurosci. 2010 Jun;13(6):669-71. Epub 2010 May 16. Cohen JR, Asarnow RF, Sabb FW, Bilder RM, Bookheimer SY, Knowlton BJ, Poldrack RA. Source Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. [email protected] Abstract Previous work has shown that human adolescents may be hypersensitive to rewards, but it is not known […]
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009 Sep;206(1):1-21. Epub 2009 Jun 23. Schramm-Sapyta NL, Walker QD, Caster JM, Levin ED, Kuhn CM. Source Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. [email protected] Abstract BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: Epidemiological evidence suggests that people who begin experimenting with drugs of abuse during early adolescence are more likely to develop substance use disorders (SUDs), but […]
Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2007 Feb;86(2):189-99. Epub 2007 Jan 12. Crews F, He J, Hodge C. Source Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, School of Medecine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. [email protected] Abstract Cortical growth and remodeling continues from birth through youth and adolescence to stable adult levels changing slowly into […]
J Res Adolesc. 2011 Mar 1;21(1):21-33. Casey B, Jones RM, Somerville LH. Source Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY USA. Abstract Adolescence is a developmental period often characterized as a time of impulsive and risky choices leading to increased incidence of unintentional injuries and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, […]
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J Neurosci. 2006 Jun 21;26(25):6885-92. Galvan A, Hare TA, Parra CE, Penn J, Voss H, Glover G, Casey BJ. Source The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adolescence has been characterized by risk-taking behaviors that can lead to fatal outcomes. This […]