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Jul 1, 2022 · The malleability of the adolescent brain may make it vulnerable at times, but teen brains are also highly capable of prosocial growth under the right circumstances, Pfeifer said. Teens’ biological need for social connection, combined with their heightened sensitivity to rewards, likely underlies teen-led activism, for instance on climate change, racial justice, and gun control.
Jan 25, 2017 · According to psychologists, the extraordinary variety of human personality can be broken down into the so-called ‘Big Five’ personality traits, namely neuroticism (how moody a person is), extraversion (how enthusiastic a person is), openness (how open-minded a person is), agreeableness (a measure of altruism), and conscientiousness (a measure of self-control).
Just as for adults, young people who have a personality disorder have high rates of early mortality, especially among those with borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder (Reference Kjelsberg and Dahl Kjelsberg 1998; Reference Pajer Pajer 1998). Therefore, these disorders are deserving of more time and attention from researchers, clinicians and policy makers.
- Gwen Adshead, Paul Brodrick, Jackie Preston, Mayura Deshpande
- 2012
We searched databases (PubMed, PsychInfo, Web of Science, and Science Direct) for different combinations of “Borderline Personality Disorder,” “Dissociation,” and the following keywords: brain, brain alterations, functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, neurobiological, neuroimaging, neurophysiological, positron emission tomography, and structural magnetic ...
Jun 9, 2020 · The folks that do the studies on untreated adults seem to think, because subjects are no longer being actually beaten or molested, that the involved brain tracks are no longer being strengthened ...
Nov 27, 2023 · Adolescence is a time of great transition, from brain and body changes to how a young person relates to the world. Positive adult-child relationships and mental health support are key.
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Apr 1, 2024 · Cell-to-cell communication in the brain at the level of individual synapses is also under development in the teen years. In the aforementioned fear extinction studies, adult rodents demonstrating a greater ability to change than adolescents correlates with something in their synaptic plasticity, or the ability of neurons to modify their connections, differently in adult brains than in teen brains.
