title: Social neuroscience of child and adolescent depression.
abstract: The social neuroscience of child and adolescent depression is inherently multidisciplinary. Depressive disorders beginning early in life can have serious developmental and functional consequences. Psychopathology research has described depression's defining clinical and contextual features, and intervention research has characterized its response to treatment and prevention programs. Neuroendocrine, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies have identified core neurobiological aspects of early-onset mood disorders. These areas are reviewed using a developmental social neuroscience perspective for integrating disparate observations. The paper introduces a dynamic adaptive systems framework, and it discusses hedonic capacity, stress sensitivity, ruminative self-focus, and attentional impairments as fundamental components of mood disorders.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. amiller@skidmore.edu
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D002666:Psychology, Child; D011593:Psychology, Social