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How Important Is Developmental Maturity in Assessing Whether Adolescents Will Share True or False Accounts of a First Offense in Legal Interactions?
Adolescents often feel pressure during legal interactions, which can affect their truthfulness. They may conceal information or give false confessions due to fear or a desire to avoid immediate discomfort.
Neurobiological Development in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: Implications for Positive Youth Adjustment
Adolescent brains undergo dramatic, positive development into their 20s and 30s. Media often mischaracterizes this period, linking negative stereotypes to increased risk-taking in youth.
Redefining Youth: The Case for Applying the Principles of Miller v. Alabama to Criminal Cases Involving Adults in Late Adolescence
This article argues that late adolescents, ages 18-21, should receive similar sentencing considerations as juveniles due to their brain development and capacity for rehabilitation.
Risk-Taking Behavior of Adolescents and Young Adults Born Preterm
Young adults born preterm had lower rates of teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, payment defaults, substance abuse, and criminal offenses compared to those born at full term.
The Teenage Brain: Sensitivity to Social Evaluation
Adolescence is marked by increased social sensitivity, where social evaluation and peer relationships become intensely important.
The Generational Trauma Card: A Tool to Educate on Intergenerational Trauma Transmission
Adolescent parents found an educational tool on intergenerational trauma acceptable and helpful. They expressed interest in learning about how trauma impacts health and felt comfortable receiving this information from their pediatrician.
Addressing Intergenerational Trauma in Black Families: Trauma-Informed Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy
This article highlights the high rates of trauma in Black communities and families. It proposes a framework called trauma-informed socioculturally attuned family therapy to address intergenerational trauma.
Cognitive neuroscience perspective on memory: overview and summary
Memory is a complex cognitive function with stages like encoding, consolidation, retrieval, and reconsolidation. It involves different brain systems, categorized into working, declarative, and non-declarative types.
Neurofunctional underpinnings of individual differences in visual episodic memory performance
Studies on human episodic memory often don't consider individual differences in memory performance or how memorable an item is. Large-scale studies are needed to better understand brain activity's role in memory variation.
Locating causal hubs of memory consolidation in spontaneous brain network in male mice
Researchers investigated brain networks crucial for memory consolidation after learning. They identified specific network hubs that are essential for long-term memory formation during periods of rest following new experiences.
Mapping Home, Memory and Spatial Recovery in Forced Displacement
The UK asylum system leaves displaced people in precarious situations, intensifying psychological trauma. Creative spatial practices, like deep-mapping, can foster recovery and belonging by helping individuals remake a sense of home.
Internal capsule microstructure mediates the relationship between childhood maltreatment and PTSD following adulthood trauma exposure
Childhood trauma may increase the risk of adult post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by altering specific brain white matter. These brain changes were identified as potential indicators of PTSD susceptibility following a recent trauma.
Structural Inequities Contribute to Racial/Ethnic Differences in Neurophysiological Tone, but Not Threat Reactivity, After Trauma Exposure
This study found race-related differences in brain responses to threat and trauma outcomes. Socioeconomic factors partially explained these differences, which have implications for PTSD prediction and treatment.
The Effect of Parents and Peers on the Neural Correlates of Risk Taking and Antisocial Behavior During Adolescence
This study investigated how parent closeness and deviant peer affiliation in early adolescence, along with brain activation during risky decision-making, contribute to later antisocial behavior in adolescent girls.
Impaired learning, memory, and extinction in posttraumatic stress disorder: translational meta-analysis of clinical and preclinical studies
This study found that individuals with PTSD and animal models of the condition show enhanced emotional learning but impaired neutral learning and memory, as well as reduced fear extinction.