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SUMMARY:Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways - 
 Stephanie Van Goozen
DTSTART:20140522T143000Z
DTEND:20140522T153000Z
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CONTACT:Mandy Carter
DESCRIPTION:Antisocial behaviour committed by youngsters is an issue of ri
 sing concern. Although there is a growing consensus that both child-specif
 ic (i.e.\, genetic\, temperamental) and social factors (e.g.\, early socia
 l adversity) contribute to the development and maintenance of antisocial b
 ehaviour\, most research has focused on identifying specific contextual or
  social factors that impinge on the developing child. For example\, negati
 ve life-events\, family stress\, and parental relationship problems have a
 ll been associated with antisocial behaviour problems in youngsters. There
  is\, however\, increasing evidence that organic factors in individual chi
 ldren explain or accentuate (mediate and/or moderate) the way in which the
 y react to early social adversity. \n Our research focuses on the role of 
 neurobiological factors in the development of antisocial behaviour in chil
 dren. We have shown that conduct disordered (CD) children have problems in
  activating their stress response systems\, which could explain why they e
 xperience difficulties in regulating affect and behaviour. We have also sh
 own that under-activity or attenuated reactivity of the autonomic nervous 
 system in infants may predispose to aggressive behaviour later in life.\n 
 In this presentation I will show that emotion processing problems are invo
 lved in youth offending behaviour and aggressive conduct problems in child
 ren with ADHD. The implications of these findings for theory and practice 
 will be pointed out\, and I will argue that researching neurobiological fu
 nctioning in antisocial youngsters not only indicates which individuals ar
 e most likely to persist in engaging in offending or aggressive behaviour\
 , but can also guide the development of new interventions.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit\, Chaucer
  Road
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