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Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain: What We’ve Learned and Where the Data are Taking Us
Keywords alcohol; adolescence; binge drinking; neuroimaging; magnetic resonance imaging; neuropsychological tests; MRI; young adults; drinking behavior(2022)
Contextualizing Adolescent Structural Brain Development: Environmental Determinants and Mental Health Outcomes
Keywords Brain structural development; Adolescence; Individual differences; Environmental factors; Mental health(2022)
Drugs, Guts, Brains, but Not Rock and Roll: The Need to Consider the Role of Gut Microbiota in Contemporary Mental Health and Wellness of Emerging Adults
Keywords microbiota; emerging adult; adolescent; mental health/ethnology; gut–brain–microbiota axis; environmental exposure(2022)
Making the Sentencing Case: Psychological and Neuroscientific Evidence for Expanding the Age of Youthful Offenders
Keywords Brain development; Recidivism; Teenagers; Law; Sentencing; Adolescence; Brain; Development; Juvenile(2022)
Positive and Negative Risk-Taking in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Citizen Science Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Keywords sensation seeking; risk-taking; COVID-19; prosocial behavior; contributing to society; life satisfaction; citizen science; participatory research(2022)
Roper and Race: the Nature and Effects of Death Penalty Exclusions for Juveniles and the “Late Adolescent Class”
Keywords Late adolescent class; Death penalty eligibility; Racial/ethnic consequences(2022)
Socioeconomic Status, BMI, and Brain Development in Children
Keywords Socioeconomic status; childhood; executive function; obesity; neurocognition; prefrontal cortex(2022)
Matter of C. L. E.
(2021)
People v. Bennett
Keywords juvenile life without parole; childhood abuse; PTSD; delayed brain development; successful rehabilitation; permanent incorrigible; vacated sentence; youth sentencing; brain development(2021)
“Some Mother's Child Has Gone Astray”: Neuroscientific Approaches to a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model of Juvenile Sentencing
Keywords adolescent brain development; therapeutic jurisprudence; retribution; rehabilitation(2021)
Accumbofrontal Tract Integrity Is Related to Early Life Adversity and Feedback Learning
Keywords Abuse; Neglect; Violence; Tough experiences; Early life; Adolescents; Brain development; Mental health(2021)
Brain and Behavior Correlates of Risk Taking in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders
Keywords Anxiety disorders; Risk taking; Mental illness; Youth; Children; Avoidant behavior(2021)
Amicus Brief of Pacific Juvenile Defender Center and Youth Law Center on Behalf of Appellant Luis Angel Gutierrez
Keywords Eighth Amendment (U.S.); adolescent behavior; biology; legal culpability; legal blameworthiness; substance use; hallmarks of adolescence; cruel and unusual punishment; LWOP; life without parole; mitigation characteristics(2021)
BRIEF FOR AMICI CURIAE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT NYU SCHOOL OF LAW, ET. AL IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT
(2021)
State v. Haag
Keywords murder; resentencing; retribution; youth mitigation; de facto life sentence(2021)