Environmental Exposures, Neurodevelopment, and Mental Health
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 7480
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cognitive development; executive functions development; attention; social disparity; cognitive training; self-regulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The role of the physical and social environment in the development of a person is crucial and can involve changes in the development trajectories of some functions but also in the structure of the neural organization itself.
Some mechanisms by which this occurs are known, but others have yet to be explored. What are the environmental factors that can cause a deviation from typical development trajectories? What are the social factors? Is there the possibility of creating virtuous paths that also allow those who grow up in a disadvantaged environment to fully exploit their development potential?
With this issue, we intend to answer these questions by welcoming proposals from different fields, psychological, neuroscientific, neuropsychological, with a focus on both typical development and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dr. Francesca Federico
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environment exposure
- neurodevelopment
- mental health
- executive functions
- social attention
- cognitive training
- neuromodulation