title: Locating Risk in the Adolescent Brain: Ethical Challenges in the Use of Biomarkers for Adolescent Health and Social Policy.
abstract: Technological developments in neuroscience over the last 20 years have generated excitement about the potential of neuroscientific insights for the understanding of and intervention in children's and adolescents' behavior. This article introduces some ways in which new results from developmental cognitive neuroscience have been appropriated in the context of adolescent mental health. We also consider social and interpersonal factors that drive the use of neurobiological markers of mental disorders in pediatric psychiatry. Finally, we outline the current ambitions for using neurobiological biomarkers in adolescent mental health care and discuss some ethical challenges arising from the methodological, political, cultural, and social contexts of their application.
authors.affiliation: Assistant professor at McGill University's Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry in Montreal.
authors.forename: Suparna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Choudhury
authors.affiliation: Editorial assistant at HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory.
authors.forename: Sheehan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moore
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D041923:Adolescent Development; D000067697:Adolescent Health; D015415:Biomarkers; D001921:Brain; D000066494:Cognitive Neuroscience; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics*; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D062528:Medicalization; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D008603:Mental Health; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000941:ethics*; D011640:Public Policy; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers