Adolescence: what do transmission, transition, and translation have to do with it?

B J Casey; Stéphanie Duhoux; Matthew Malter Cohen

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.033

Adolescence: what do transmission, transition, and translation have to do with it?

Neuron. 2010 Sep 9;67(5):749-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.08.033.

Authors

B J Casey¹, Stéphanie Duhoux, Matthew Malter Cohen

Affiliation

¹ Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue, Box 140, New York, NY 10065, USA. bjc2002@med.cornell.edu

Abstract

Negotiating the transition from dependence on parents to relative independence is not a unique demand for today's youth but has a long evolutionary history (transmission) and is shared across mammalian species (translation). However, behavioral changes observed during this period are often described as delinquent. This review examines changes in explorative and emotive behaviors during the transition into and out of adolescence and the underlying neurobiological bases in the context of adaptive and maladaptive functions.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Adolescent / physiology
Adolescent Behavior / physiology*
Adolescent Development / physiology*
Brain / anatomy & histology
Brain / growth & development*
Brain Mapping
Humans
Models, Psychological

Abstract

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