Extinguishing fearful and addictive brain during adolescence

消除青春期恐惧和成瘾的大脑

• 批准号: nhmrc : 1083309
• 负责人: Dr Jee Hyun Kim
• 金额: $ 28.57万
• 依托单位: The University of Melbourne
• 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 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/extinguishing-fearful-addictive-brain-adolescence/518926
• 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.

暴露疗法依赖于在安全的环境中，由于暴露于这些触发器而没有情绪事件，因此减少了对先前触发器的情绪。青春期标志着一个成熟的时期，特别是抵抗这种疗法，由于他们的前额皮质不同受体的不平衡。我们会使用现有的临床认可药物，以纠正这种化学失衡，并促进行为疗法，以治疗青少年焦虑和滥用药物。