Neurophysiological maturation in adolescence – vulnerability and counteracting addiction to alcohol
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Neurophysiological maturation in adolescence - vulnerability and counteracting addiction to alcohol.
The results of contemporary studies confirm the formation of two neural networks in the brain during the period of adolescence. The first is defined as emotional, located in the limbic system, develops earlier, quicker, and more intensively than the second one in the prefrontal cortex, called the judgement network, which fulfils the role of control and inhibition of emotional reactions. The dom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1232-1966,1898-2263
DOI: 10.5604/12321966.1234002