Leveraging Neuroscience to Inform Adolescent Health: The Need for an Innovative Transdisciplinary Developmental Science of Adolescence

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 240-248

  Suleiman, Ahna Ballonoff ^a   Dahl, Ronald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Anxiety; Depression; Sleep; Transdisciplinary developmental science; Translational science

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; ANXIETY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; EARLY INTERVENTION; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 85013962075     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: 18791972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.12.010     Document Type: Review

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