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Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?
Keywords Adolescents; Brain development; Risk taking; Cognition; social cognition; mentalizing; adolescent brain development; plasticity; sensitive period(2014)
The Role of the Anterior Insula in Adolescent Decision Making
Keywords Adolescence; Risky decision making; Neural development; Anterior insula(2014)
Teens Impulsively React Rather Than Retreat from Threat
Keywords Adolescents; Fear; Impulsivity; Control; Threat; Brain scans; Adolescence; Limbic circuitry; Orbitofrontal cortex; Medial prefrontal cortex(2014)
The Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in the Lives of Juvenile Offenders
Keywords Adolescents; Trauma; Health; Young offenders; Childhood; Juvenile offenders; prevention; victimization; maltreatment(2014)
Adolescents Let Sufficient Evidence Accumulate Before Making a Decision When Large Incentives Are at Stake
Keywords Impulsivity; Incentives; Teenage behavior; Reward; Adolescent decision-making; Choice evaluation(2014)
Perceived Discrimination Among African American Adolescents and Allostatic Load: a Longitudinal Analysis with Buffering Effects
Keywords Adolescents; Black; Racism; Stress; Health; allostatic load; development; discrimination(2014)
Stalcup v. State
Keywords vehicular homicide; expert testimony; trauma; memory repression; EMDR therapy; reliable evidence; relevant evidence; conviction reversed(2013)
Evans v. State
Keywords murder conviction; PTSD expert; due process; expert testimony; juvenile defendant; trauma; mental state(2013)
Asylum Seekers, Violence and Health: A Systematic Review of Research in High-Income Host Countries
Keywords asylum seekers; violence; mental health; PTSD; detention; high-income countries; systematic review(2013)
Gissendaner v. Seaboldt
Keywords ineffective lawyer; childhood sexual abuse; trauma; PTSD diagnoses; mitigation investigation; adequate; evidence(2013)
Walker v. Shult
Keywords extreme overcrowding; unsanitary conditions; constant noise; severe sleep loss; sleep deprivation; Eighth Amendment(2013)
Lebron v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families
Keywords drug testing; TANF; 4th Amendment; preliminary injunction; welfare(2013)
De'lonta v. Johnson
Keywords Transgender inmate; Eighth Amendment; prison officials; medical standards; gender confirmation surgery; denial of care; access to care(2013)
Adolescent Brain Development in Normality and Psychopathology
Keywords Adolescent brain; Risky behaviors; Decision-making; Impulse control; Responsible choices; Brain development; Reward-seeking; Well-being of teenagers(2013)
Digital Peer Interactions Affect Risk Taking in Young Adults
Keywords Social media; Risk taking; Peer influence; Texting; Teenagers; Digital(2013)