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Psychotherapies
Bringing together empirical research, clinical studies and reviews in order to advance how we understand and approach child and adolescent mental health. Twitter @TheJCPP
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Professor Dr Albertine Oldehinkel
Professor Dr Albertine Oldehinkel talks to us about JCPP’s future.
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Annual Research Review: On the developmental neuropsychology of substance use disorders
The researchers identify certain neurocognitive and personality/comorbidity-based risk factors for the onset of substance misuse during adolescence, and summarise the evidence suggesting that these risk factors may be further impacted by the direct effect of drugs on the underlying neural circuits implicated in substance misuse vulnerability.
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Brain structure abnormalities in adolescent girls with conduct disorder
The research team observed structural abnormalities in brain regions involved in emotion processing, reward and empathy in female adolescents with CD, which broadly overlap with those reported in previous studies of CD in male adolescents.
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