Archive for category: Lauro Quadrana

Adolescent group, institution and virtual world: the negotiation of boundaries

11 August 2022/in Adolescents group and new representations at the time of the internet, Elisabetta Pierini, Jennifer Virone, Lauro Quadrana/by @dmin

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In this paper the authors propose a reflection on how digital era has changed the communication and relationships among adolescents. The focus is placed on how the unlimited possibilities offered by the virtual world can rinforce the omnipotence of adolescence. The information and communication technologies (ICT) allow the adolescents to reduce the face to face confrontation and to replace the direct experience with a mediated perception. The purpose of this study is to explore how the new “rules” of the virtual world collude with Read more

Adolescent mind and neurosciences

9 July 2012/in Gianluigi Monniello, Lauro Quadrana, Sensoriality corporeity and sexuality in the group/by @dmin

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Adolescent Mind Transformation and Neurosciences. We have lately been observing a great development both in neurophysiologic and in neuropsychological research aiming to explain and integrate, on behalf of some scientists, how scientific breakthroughs may be of utility in confirming the basics of the psychoanalytic theory. Neurosciences have lately been defining the structure and functions of the brain systems processing the information about the relationship with the caregiver and underlying the subjectuality and intersubjectivity mechanisms. Thanks to brain imaging we can nowadays observe the progressive maturation of the brain in adolescence, especially the complete development of the frontal lobe which, from the Read more