Popma A
Tijdschr Psychiatr. 2015;57(12):871-5.
Research on the developing brain in children and adolescents is delivering new insights into the underlying mechanisms of childhood psychiatric disorders.
To provide important information about the role that departments of Dutch child and adolescent psychiatry are playing in this international field that is expanding rapidly.
This article provides an overview of recent, mainly Dutch neuro-imaging studies on the developing brain.
A large number of studies from Dutch research centers have greatly increased our knowledge about normal and abnormal brain development in relation to the development of psychiatric disorders.
Neuro-developmental research can help us to understand the underlying mechanisms of developing psychiatric disorders. This is likely to lead to new preventive measures and to more effective treatment in the future. Policy-makers should therefore commit a larger proportion of their neuroscience research budgets to neurodevelopmental studies in children.
关于儿童和青少年大脑发育的研究正在为儿童精神疾病的潜在机制提供新的见解。
提供有关荷兰儿童和青少年精神病学部门在这个迅速扩展的国际领域中所起作用的重要信息。
本文概述了近期主要来自荷兰的关于大脑发育的神经影像学研究。
荷兰研究中心的大量研究极大地增加了我们对与精神疾病发展相关的正常和异常大脑发育的认识。
神经发育研究有助于我们理解精神疾病发展的潜在机制。这可能会在未来带来新的预防措施和更有效的治疗方法。因此，政策制定者应将其神经科学研究预算的更大比例用于儿童神经发育研究。
