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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"adolescent-onset"”.
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Developmental Pathways To Conduct Problems
… proposing different etiologies for childhood-onset and adolescent-onset conduct problems. It investigates a variety of causal factors proven to be important for the development of antisocial behaviors, specifically neuropsychological/cognitive deficits, temperamental vulnerabilities, …
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Development of conduct problems in girls: Testing theoretical models and examining the role of puberty
… represent two developmental trajectories. The adolescent-onset pathway is associated with deviant peers and few characterological problems, where as the childhood-onset pathway is associated with emotion regulation deficits, negative parenting, callous and unemotional traits, and neurological …
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Effects of oral delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol (THC) administration on motor activity and anxiety-like behavior in adolescent and adult Sprague-Dawley rats of both sexes
… the most commonly used recreational drugs among adolescents and young adults. Exposure to cannabis and its primary psychoactive component delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) may induce modifications in neural circuitry that in turn lead to adverse consequences on behavior. Previous literature has …
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Adolescent Male Perpetrators of Rape in the General Population and Their Young Adult Outcomes
… sexual assault and rapes were perpetrated by adolescents and young adults in 2007: Maston & Klaus, 2010). Researchers estimated sexually violent behavior among adolescent males in the general population at rates of 2.2 to 10%: Ageton, 1983; Banyard, Cross, & Modecki, 2006; Borowsky, Hogan, & …
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Mindfulness-based group intervention for an adolescent girl at risk for type 2 diabetes: a case study
Adolescent-onset type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a rising healthcare problem that disproportionately impacts females and historically disadvantaged racial/ethnic groups. Standard behavioral lifestyle interventions to prevent T2D by lowering body mass index (BMI) to lessen insulin resistance, a key …
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Sex differences in PFC-related behavior after amphetamine exposure and across adolescent development
… especially harmful consequences, however, as adolescent-onset substance use is more likely to lead to dependence. Brain regions within the mesocorticolimbic circuit are involved in the control of reward behavior and undergo dramatic and sex-specific remodeling during adolescence. In …
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Quantitative pathophysiology in rabbit models of early onset scoliosis and expansion thoracoplasty
Early onset deformity of the spine and chest wall (initiated <8 years of age) is associated with declining respiratory function and increased morbidity at adulthood relative to adolescent onset deformity of comparable severity. In young children it is presumed that inhibition of thoracic growth …
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Electrophysiological Correlates of Cognitive Processing in Adolescents Reporting Psychotic-Like Experiences
… et al., 2000; Welham et al., 2009a; 2009b). Adolescents who report psychotic-like experiences (PLEs; the non-clinical psychosis phenotype) have been shown to share many of the same schizophrenia-related risk factors as patients with schizophrenia (the clinical psychosis phenotype; Kelleher & …