Psychosocial Stress and Brain Function in Adolescent Psychopathology

Erin Burke Quinlan1, Anna Cattrell1, Tianye Jia1

  • 1From the Medical Research Council Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, the Addictions Department, and the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London; INSERM, UMR 1000, Neuroimaging and Psychiatry Research Unit, University Paris-Sud, University Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris; Maison de Solenn, Paris; the Department of Psychiatry, Orsay Hospital, Orsay, France; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Discipline of Psychiatry, School of Medicine and Trinity College Institute of Neurosciences, Trinity College Dublin; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, CHU Ste. Justine Hospital, Montreal; the Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; NeuroSpin, CEA (Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission), University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Vermont, Burlington; Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Center, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, U.K.; the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin; AP-HP, Department of Adolescent Psychopathology and Medicine, Maison de Solenn, Cochin Hospital, Paris; Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, and the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto; the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Göttingen, von-Siebold-Str., Göttingen, Germany; Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel, Vienna; the Department of Psychiatry and the Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; School of Psychology and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin; and the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior, Radboud University Medical Center, and Karakter Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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