Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Current Strategies and Future Trends
This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes. It addresses a broad range of aspects, inclu
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Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
Alessandro Pingitore Francesca Mastorci • Cristina Vassalle Editors
Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Current Strategies and Future Trends
Editors Alessandro Pingitore Clinical Physiology Institute CNR, Via Moruzzi 1 Pisa Italy
Francesca Mastorci Clinical Physiology Institute CNR, Via Moruzzi 1 Pisa Italy
Cristina Vassalle Fondazione G. Monasterio Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa Italy
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Foreword
Adolescence is an extraordinary, in many aspects, magical age of life in which the perception of oneself changes dramatically; the body is transforming and the quality of relationships is changing, emotions are multiplied and complicated. Probably, the trigger of change is represented by the hormonal tsunami that around age 12–13 begins the physical transformation and the upsetting of the nervous networks of emotional regulation. The sudden moments of excitement or anger, the vertiginous oscillation of humor, and the uncontrolled reactions are the most obvious result. Actually, many imaging studies have shown that the brain of adolescents cannot be considered as an older infant brain or as a younger adult organ; on the contrary, it is a reality in itself, in many ways still mysterious, characterized by great flexibility and an explosive increase in the number of connections between the brain regions. Particularly, during puberty the limbic system that is driving emotions under the hormonal stimulus is strongly activated and rapidly consolidated, while the prefrontal cortex that co
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