Adolescence: What Do Transmission, Transition, and Translation Have to Do with It? with BJ Casey at NYPSI

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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute:Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
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Saturday, December 4, 2010
10 am – 12 pm

B J Casey, Ph.D.
Sackler Professor of Developmental Psychobiology
Director of the Sackler Institute
Weill Cornell Medical College

Adolescence:
What Do Transmission, Transition, and Translation Have to Do with It?

Discussant: Mark Solms, Ph.D.
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.
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