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The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations
  • L. Spear
  • Psychology, Biology
    Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • 1 June 2000
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Transitions Into Underage and Problem Drinking: Developmental Processes and Mechanisms Between 10 and 15 Years of Age
TLDR
The timing of and variations in developmental changes are related to individual differences in alcohol use and this integrated developmental perspective is proposed to serve as the foundation for subsequent efforts to prevent and to treat the causes, problems, and consequences of alcohol consumption.
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Adolescent neurodevelopment.
  • L. Spear
  • Psychology
    The Journal of adolescent health : official…
  • 2013
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Neurobehavioral Changes in Adolescence
Adolescents across a variety of species exhibit age-specific behavioral characteristics that may have evolved to help them attain the necessary skills for independence. These adolescent-related…
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Periadolescence: age-dependent behavior and psychopharmacological responsivity in rats.
TLDR
Periadolescent rats are hyperactive and engage in more conspecific play behavior than younger or older rats, but perform poorly in more complex appetitive and avoidance learning tasks in which increases in locomotor activity do not improve performance, perhaps as a result of age-specific alterations in selective attention or stimulus processing.
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Modeling Adolescent Development and Alcohol Use in Animals
  • L. Spear
  • Psychology
    Alcohol research & health : the journal of the…
  • 2000
Though certain characteristics found in human adolescents are clearly unique, there are other key characteristics of this developmental stage that are common across a number of species. Animal models…
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Cocaine sensitization in periadolescent and adult rats.
TLDR
Periadolescent rats of both sexes showed sensitization to the locomotor activating effects (matrix crossings) of Coc, whereas a consistent sensitization profile for both stereotyped head scanning and focused sniffing activities were found in adults but not in periadolescents.
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The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence
Linda Spear provides a detailed and illuminating overview of the genetic, hormonal, and neurological developments that take place during adolescence, and shows how these changes, along with…
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Rewarding properties of social interactions in adolescent and adult male and female rats: impact of social versus isolate housing of subjects and partners.
TLDR
Assessment of social conditioned place preference in adolescent and adult male and female Sprague-Dawley rats found age differences in social CPP may reflect age-related neural alterations in brain systems implicated in regulation of social behavior.
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Nicotine-induced conditioned place preference in adolescent and adult rats
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