Research Question:
What changes occur in the Brains of Adolescents?
Website:
JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. Region I Title X Family Planning Training Center. (www.famplan.org/index.htm). December 6, 2009
A current News article:
“Common plastic chemical ‘contributes to ADHD in kids”. ANI, November 20th 2009, Google News search . http://blog.taragana.com.
A popular non-news article:
“Booze bruising teen brains; Under-age drinking raises risk of alcohol dependency: study”. JENNIFER SHERIDAN. November 1st 2009, LexisNexis research database, November 22, 2009.
Two scholarly articles:
1) Kelly, Janis. “Neuroimaging Reveals Insight into the Teenage Brain” National Institute of Mental Health May 2008, vol. 9 Issue 5 Page 20, Academic Search Complete EBSCO Web 17 Oct 2009.
2) Shaw, P.Greenstein, D.Lerch, J.Clasen, L.Lenroot, R.Gogtay, N.Evans, A.Rapoport, J.Giedd, J. “intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents”. March 30, 2006 Vol. 440 Issue 7084 p 676-679, Academic Search Complete EBSCO web 17 Oct 2009.
A Book (AUC Library):
David F. Bjorklund. Why youth is not wasted on the young: immaturity in human development. Oxford, UK; Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2007. Print. HQ772 .B4795 2007
A Film (AUC Library):
Why men don’t iron [videorecording] / a Quality Time Television production for Channel Four; series producer: Anne Moir. New York, N.Y: First Run/Icarus Films, 1998. 1998. AUC Libraries Search, October 26, 2009, call number: 1) BF692.2 .W49 1998. 2) BF692.2 .W49 1998. 3) BF692.2 .W49 1998.
