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From Suspension to Mass Incarceration: Punishment of Students with Special Needs and the School-To-Prison Pipeline.
Keywords Zero-tolerance policies; School discipline; School-to-prison pipeline; Students with disabilities; Marginalized students; Racial disparities; School-based arrests
Responding to the Trauma That Is Endemic to the Criminal Legal System: Many Opportunities for Juvenile Prevention, Intervention, and Rehabilitation.
Keywords Trauma; Juvenile; Racism; Trauma-informed care; Prevention
Expanding understanding of adolescent neural sensitivity to peers: Using social information processing theory to generate new lines of research.
Keywords Peer influence; FMRI; Adolescence; Individual differences; Behavior
Decoding Adolescent Decision Making: Neurocognitive Processes, Risk Perception, and the Influence of Peers
Keywords Adolescent Risk-Taking; Dual Process Model; Reward System; Cognitive Control; Prefrontal Cortex; Neuroimaging; Adolescent Brain Development; Peer Influence; Decision Making; Risk Perception
The Vicious Cycle: Problematic Family Relations, Substance Abuse, and Crime in Adolescence: A Narrative Review
Keywords Adolescence; risky behaviors; juvenile delinquency; family communication; parental support; family climate; socio-economic status
Invincible honor: masculine honor, perceived invulnerability, and risky decision-making
Keywords Culture of honor; Risk-taking; Risky decision-making; Perceived invulnerability; Masculine honor
Development of Moral Judgments in Impersonal and Personal Dilemmas in Autistic Spectrum Disorders from Childhood to Late Adolescence
Keywords Moral dilemma; Autistic spectrum disorders; Social cognition; Empathy; Dual-process theory
Naloxone precipitated withdrawal increases dopamine release in the dorsal striatum of opioid dependent men
Drive, instinct, reflex-Applications to treatment of anxiety, depressive and addictive disorders
Keywords SEEKING (enthusiasm) system; addiction; anxiety disorders; depressive disorder; drive (instinct); instinct; neuropsychoanalysis; pleasure (principle)
P.G. v. Jefferson County
Keywords methadone; ADA; pretrial detainees; jails; due process violation; medication access; court ruling
Amicus Curiae Letter in Support of Petition for Review in Chelsea Becker v. Superior Court
Keywords pregnancy loss; stillbirth; substance use during pregnancy; criminal prosecution; prenatal care; substance use disorder
Brief of Amici Curiae Center for Constitutional Rights, Transgender Law Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights, Make the Road New York et al. in Support of Respondents
Keywords Homelessness; criminalization of poverty; Eighth Amendment; cruel and unusual punishment; affordable housing crisis; public sleeping bans
Neuroendocrine mechanisms in the links between early life stress, affect, and youth substance use: A conceptual model for the study of sex and gender differences
Keywords adolescence; adversity; HPA; HPG; mood; substance use; stress; sex differences; gender differences; early life stress
State v. Anderson
Keywords criminal justice system; racial bias; youthful offender; juvenile life sentence; cruel and unusual punishment; racial disparity in sentencing; Washington State Constitution
Primer: Psychedelics
Keywords Psychedelics; Psilocybin; MDMA; Serotonin receptors; Therapeutic potential; Neurobiology; Set and setting; Neuroplasticity; LSD