Satellite Imaging of Global Urbanicity relates to Brain and Behavior in Young People

Abstract Urbanicity is a growing environmental challenge for mental-health. While the impact of urban life on brain and behavior might be distinct in different sociocultural conditions and geographies, there might exist features shared between regions. To investigate correlations of urbanicity with brain structure and function, neuropsychology and mental illness symptoms in young people from China and Europe, we developed a remote-sensing satellite-measure termed ‘UrbanSat’ quantifying population-density, a general measure of urbanicity. UrbanSat is correlated with brain volume, surface area and brain-network-connectivity in the medial prefrontal cortex and cerebellum, which mediate its effect on perspective-taking and depression- symptoms. Susceptibility to high population-density is greatest during childhood for the cerebellum and from childhood to adolescence for the prefrontal cortex. As UrbanSat can be generalized to different geographies, it will enable assessing the impact of urbanicity on mental illness and resilience globally, especially in young people where prevention and early interventions are most effective.

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THE IMPACT OF "PUBLIC CULTURE" ON YOUTH SPIRITUALITY

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSENSUS ◽

10.26739/2181-0788-2020-3-15 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 130-135

Author(s):

Mukhiddin Tursunmuratov ◽

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Young People ◽

Public Culture ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

This article provides a detailed description and explanation of the term "popular culture". It also analyzes a number of aspects of "popular culture" that are becoming more widespread today, their role and influence in the formation of the minds and behavior of young people, and draws the necessary conclusions. Most importantly, it also describes ways to protect young people from threats in the form of "popular culture" that negatively affect their morale.

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AMPed-up adolescents: the role of age in the abuse of amphetamines and its consequences on cognition and prefrontal cortex development

10.31219/osf.io/t58qe ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sara Ruth Westbrook ◽

Lauren Carrica ◽

Asia Banks ◽

Joshua Michael Gulley

Keyword(s):

Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Animal Studies ◽

Drug Effects ◽

Epidemiological Studies ◽

Brain Regions ◽

Vulnerability Factors ◽

Brain And Behavior ◽

And Behavior ◽

Detrimental Impact

Adolescent use of amphetamine and its closely related, methylated version methamphetamine, is alarmingly high in those who use drugs for nonmedical purposes. This raises serious concerns about the potential for this drug use to have a long-lasting, detrimental impact on the normal development of the brain and behavior that is ongoing during adolescence. In this review, we explore recent findings from both human and laboratory animal studies that investigate the consequences of amphetamine and methamphetamine exposure during this stage of life. We highlight studies that assess sex differences in adolescence, as well as those that are designed specifically to address the potential unique effects of adolescent exposure by including groups at other life stages (typically young adulthood). We consider epidemiological studies on age and sex as vulnerability factors for developing problems with the use of amphetamines, as well as human and animal laboratory studies that tap into age differences in use, its short-term effects on behavior, and the long-lasting consequences of this exposure on cognition. We also focus on studies of drug effects in the prefrontal cortex, which is known to be critically important for cognition and is among the later maturing brain regions. Finally, we discuss important issues that should be addressed in future studies so that the field can further our understanding of the mechanisms underlying adolescent use of amphetamines and its outcomes on the developing brain and behavior.

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The Impact of Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) on Brain and Behavior

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00044 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Leif E. R. Simmatis ◽

Stephen H. Scott ◽

Albert Y. Jin

Keyword(s):

Transient Ischemic Attack ◽

Brain And Behavior ◽

Ischemic Attack ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

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Prenatal Developmental Origins of Future Psychopathology: Mechanisms and Pathways

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology ◽

10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050718-095539 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 317-344 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Catherine Monk ◽

Claudia Lugo-Candelas ◽

Caroline Trumpff

Keyword(s):

Maternal Distress ◽

Developmental Origins ◽

Neurodevelopmental Outcomes ◽

Fetal Origins ◽

Behavior Development ◽

Increased Risk ◽

Health And Disease ◽

Brain And Behavior ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

The developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis applied to neurodevelopmental outcomes asserts that the fetal origins of future development are relevant to mental health. There is a third pathway for the familial inheritance of risk for psychiatric illness beyond shared genes and the quality of parental care: the impact of pregnant women's distress—defined broadly to include perceived stress, life events, depression, and anxiety—on fetal and infant brain–behavior development. We discuss epidemiological and observational clinical data demonstrating that maternal distress is associated with children's increased risk for psychopathology: For example, high maternal anxiety is associated with a twofold increase in the risk of probable mental disorder in children. We review several biological systems hypothesized to be mechanisms by which maternal distress affects fetal and child brain and behavior development, as well as the clinical implications of studies of the developmental origins of health and disease that focus on maternal distress. Development and parenting begin before birth.

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Gonadal steroids, brain, and behavior: role of context

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience ◽

10.31887/dcns.2002.4.2/drubinow ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 123-137 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Mood Disorders ◽

Steroid Hormones ◽

Differential Susceptibility ◽

Reproductive Function ◽

Gonadal Steroids ◽

Wide Range ◽

Reproductive Endocrine ◽

Brain And Behavior ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

The nature and extent of the impact of gender and reproductive function on mood has been the subject of speculation and controversy for centuries. Over the past 50 years, however, it has become increasingly clear that not only is the brain a major target of reproductive steroid hormones, but additionally, the steroid hormones, as neuroregulators, create a context thai influences a broad range of brain activities; ie, neural actions and resultant behaviors are markedly different in the presence and absence of gonadal steroids. In turn, the actions of gonadal steroids are themselves context-dependent. Thus, even where it can be demonstrated thai gonadal steroids trigger mood disorders, the triggers are normal levels of gonadal steroids (to be contrasted with the mood disturbances accompanying endocrinopathies), and the mood disorders appear only in a subset of susceptible individuals. The context specificity and differential susceptibility to affective dysregulation seen in women with reproductive endocrine-related mood disorders are undoubtedly important underlying characteristics of a wide range of psychiatric disorders in which the triggers have not yet been identified. Consequently, reproductive endocrine-related mood disorders offer unparalleled promise for the identification of those contextual variables that permit biological stimuli to differentially translate into depression in individuals at risk.

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A Socio-Pragmatic Analysis of the Impact of Impoliteness and Aggressive Language in Violent Online Games on the Players

International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation ◽

10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.11.20 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (11) ◽

pp. 206-216

Author(s):

Fatima Abdul Ghany Idrees

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Aggressive Behavior ◽

Online Games ◽

The Other ◽

Pragmatic Analysis ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

This study attempted to discover and analyse the impact of violent online games on the players’ language and behavior as well as how these expressions might harm, intimidate, and damage others’ face. It is worth mentioning that online games become the young’s playground where they interact with others and may adopt a certain type of language and behavior. As players engage in a competitive fight of characters, they use certain communicative styles to express their feelings and emotions, including impolite expressions. Hence, this paper looked into these expressions, their responses to those expressions, and the reasons behind them. In addition, this study identified whether there is any impact in choosing these impolite expressions. Moreover, these violent gaming can provide a good field of investigation because impoliteness is widely occurring in such situations, through which people from various cultures, ages and genders come in contact to fight each other, be uncivil, and criticize and damage the other’s face. Moreover, these games may even encourage certain harmful impolite terminology and aggressive behavior to inter the players ‘repertoire and become the language of everyday use. In gathering the data, impolite expressions were collected by participating in some battles involving abusive and impolite words. Based on the results obtained, the study reached some conclusions that Culpeper’s (2005) and Spencer-Oatey’s (2002 and 2005) models are applicable in the context of violent online games. There is a big tendency that young people adopt and use various impolite expressions according to their gender and their relations for many reasons. In addition, it is widely recognized that most players have limited politeness competence and directly reply to others’ impolite language with hostility. Finally yet importantly, positive impoliteness strategies are used more than the other models, whereas quality of face was the most damaged one in Spencer-Oatey model.

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Screening for Mental Illness: The Merger of Eugenics and the Drug Industry

Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1891/1559-4343.7.2.111 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 111-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Vera Hassner Sharav

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Psychotropic Drugs ◽

Treatment Plan ◽

Medication Treatment ◽

Faith Based ◽

United States Population ◽

Behavioral Abnormalities ◽

Children First ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Impact

The implementation of a recommendation by the President’s New Freedom Commission (NFC) to screen the entire United States population—children first—for presumed, undetected, mental illness is an ill-conceived policy destined for disastrous consequences. The “pseudoscientific” methods used to screen for mental and behavioral abnormalities are a legacy from the discredited ideology of eugenics. Both eugenics and psychiatry suffer from a common philosophical fallacy that undermines the validity of their theories and prescriptions. Both are wed to a faith-based ideological assumption that mental and behavior manifestations are biologically determined, and are, therefore, ameliorated by biological interventions. NFC promoted the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) as a “model” medication treatment plan. The impact of TMAP is evident in the skyrocketing increase in psychotropic drug prescriptions for children and adults, and in the disproportionate expenditure for psychotropic drugs. The New Freedom Commission’s screening for mental illness initiative is, therefore, but the first step toward prescribing drugs. The escalating expenditure for psychotropic drugs since TMAP leaves little doubt about who the beneficiaries of TMAP are. Screening for mental illness will increase their use.

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