Daniel Romer and Elaine F. Walker (eds): Adolescent Psychopathology and the Developing Brain

Excerpt

At long last two ships passing in the night (i.e., the psychopathology of adolescence and brain science) have finally come within hailing distance of each other, signaling what should be the beginning of a long and complementary voyage of scientific discovery. In this edited volume Daniel Romer and Elaine Walker (eds) have taken on the daunting task of integrating decades of research on the behavioral, cognitive and social aspects of adolescent psychopathology (i.e., the psychosocial factors contributing to ADHD, autism, depression, bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia, and other psychoses appearing during the turbulent time of adolescence), and relating them to current findings on the neural structure and circuitry of the developing brain. …