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Why do many psychiatric disorders emerge during adolescence?
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The peak age of onset for many psychiatric disorders is adolescence, a time of remarkable physical and behavioural changes. The processes in the brain that underlie these behavioural changes have been the subject of recent investigations. What do we know about the maturation of the human brain during adolescence? Do structural changes in the cerebral cortex reflect synaptic pruning? Are increases in white-matter volume driven by myelination? Is the adolescent brain more or less sensitive to reward? Finding answers to these questions might enable us to further our understanding of mental health during adolescence.
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“this developmental period is also associated with increased risk taking, accidents, and susceptibility to psychopathology (Crone et al., 2016; Giedd et al., 2008; Kessler, Berglund, et al., 2005; Steinberg, 2007).”
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“Despite these limitations, it is thought that reductions in gray matter volume might reflect synaptic reorganization and/or increases in white matter integrity (Paus et al. 2008).”
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“Further, adolescence is a time of increased vulnerability to develop anxiety or depressive symptoms (Paus et al., 2008)”
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“Faced with this cocktail of stressful new experiences on a background of unstable hormones and altered brain function, it is perhaps unsurprising that adolescents are vulnerable to mental health problems (Kessler et al., 2005;Lee et al., 2014;Paus et al., 2008).”
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“Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) studies in humans have shown that white matter volume steadily increases from childhood into adolescence, accompanied by changes in Diffusion Weighted Imaging (DWI) parameters, suggesting that maturation of axons/myelin sheaths represents an ongoing (developmental) process (Paus et al., 2008).”
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“Early abnormalities of maturational changes appear from the ectodermal phase to the first year after birth (first-wave hits) 49 .”
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“Depression typically does not emerge until the adolescent period despite early environmental insults, and this relatively late onset of depression has been documented in both human and non-human animal models of ELS”
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“It has been well established in the literature that children, and especially adolescents, are susceptible to experiencing mental health problems, while most mental disorders have their onset in this age period [51,52].”
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“It has been well established in the literature that children, and especially adolescents, are susceptible to experiencing mental health problems, while most mental disorders have their onset in this age period [51,52].”
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“It is important to resolve these inconsistencies to gain a better understanding of the neural correlates of risky behaviors and risk factors for psychopathology that emerge during adolescence (Galvan, 2010; Paus et al., 2008).”
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“Instead, grey matter decline may reflect an artefact of increased myelination of intra-cortical axons (Bourgeois and Rakic, 1993, Paus, 2005, Paus et al., 2008).”
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“Adolescence is a period of increased emotional reactivity and psychopathology.”
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“Evidence suggests that structural brain development in brain regions subserving emotion regulation continues into adulthood (Paus et al., 2008).”
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“Psychopathology associated with internalising symptoms notably increases during the adolescent years (Lee et al., 2014, Paus et al., 2008).”
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“Given that the onset of many psychiatric conditions occurs during adolescence (72), and that genotype variations have been associated with the incidence of developmental psychiatric disorders, elucidating the role of genetics in determining brain function during childhood and adolescence is critical to our understanding of the development of these disorders.”
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“We then analyzed transcriptional dynamics in each of the neuron subtypes between adolescence8,9 (P21) and adulthood (P60) in mouse, a critical postnatal period believed to be associated with greatly increased neuroplasticity, and manifestation of most neuropsychiatric disorders7,10.”
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“Since initial manifestation of these disorders frequently occur during adolescence”
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“A potential imbalance between the time courses of cortical and subcortical neural circuitry development is one hypothesized mechanism of adolescent vulnerability to disorders such as SAD (Paus et al., 2008).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Paus, T., Keshavan, M., & Giedd, J. N.
- Affiliations
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- National Institute of Mental Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Paus, Tomáš
- Giedd, Jay N.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2008-11-12
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 947-957
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- PMC
- PMC2762785
- OpenAlex
- W2040073285
- Semantic Scholar
- 7c469b7f89043f4867b02938be67d786fc761827
- Cited by
- 3,123
- References
- 117
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (Z01MH002794)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Keywords
- adolescent brain development, mental illness, synaptic pruning, cortical maturation, white matter myelination, reward sensitivity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Mental Disorders, Brain, Humans, Synaptic Transmission, Peer Group, Sex Characteristics, Age of Onset, Adolescent Development
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