Extinguishing fearful and addictive brain during adolescence

消除青春期恐惧和成瘾的大脑

• 批准号: nhmrc : GNT1083309
• 负责人: A/Pr Jee Hyun Kim
• 金额: $ 41.18万
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Career Development Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/extinguishing-fearful-addictive-brain-adolescence/1345500
• 关键词: Extinguishing; fearful; addictive; brain; during

Exposure therapies rely on the decrease in emotions to previous triggers due to the exposure to those triggers without an emotional event in a safe environment. Adolescence marks a period of maturation that is particularly resistant to such therapies, due to the imbalance of different receptors in their prefrontal cortex. We will redress such chemical imbalance by using existing clinically-approved drugs, and facilitate behavioural therapies to treat adolescent anxiety and substance abuse.

暴露疗法依赖于由于在安全的环境中暴露于这些触发因素而没有情绪事件而导致对先前触发因素的情绪减少。青春期标志着一个成熟期，由于前额叶皮质不同受体的不平衡，对这种疗法特别有抵抗力。我们将通过使用现有的临床批准的药物来纠正这种化学失衡，并促进行为疗法来治疗青少年焦虑和药物滥用。