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Adriana Galvan is a psychologist and professor known for her research in adolescents in brain development. Her focus of research was on characterizing the neural mechanisms underlying adolescent behavior with an eye towards informing policy. She has won awards some of them being U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award, and American Psychological Association Early Career Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. These awards are only Adriana Galvan most recent ones.

Biography of Adriana Galvan
Adriana Galvan earned her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and a PhD inn Neuroscience. She currently works on the campus of UCLA and has been working there since 2008. She is a professor in the department of Psychology. . Galvan researches the development of confrontational circuitry in the adolescent brain as related to risky behavior, decision making, social processing, and learning. Adriana Galvan has her own website and has a team that come up with findings. Some of her findings are about sleep and emotions, Sleep habits and risk-taking behaviors, Brain developments and Learning, and Stress and Brain Function. Some awards she won were The Department of Psychology Distinguished Teaching Award. This award recognizes faculty members who stand out for teaching that “incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning and has a lifelong impact.” She received this award in 2015. The American Psychological Association Division 7 Boyd McCandless Award. This award The Boyd McCandless Award recognizes a young scientist who has made a distinguished theoretical contribution to developmental psychology. She won this award in 2014. The William T. Grant Young Scholars Award this was a program and awards were based on applicants' potential to become influential researcher She won this award in 2013.

Galvan is now on the UCLA campus teaching about the development of the adolescent brain, how the brain of adolescents can be beneficial and destructive in relation to risk behaviors, how our reward system works, and even the findings of her research. All of her research solely focuses on the brain of the children that are in the period of turning to adults which is considered the adolescent period.

The impact she society holds is discovering the truth about the adolescent brain (adolescent is the time the brain is developing from a child to an adult) and how it can actually be a dangerous time period. In an experiment conducted between children, adolescents and adults to exam the brain scan during "event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging and a paradigm that parametrically manipulated reward values", for the prefrontal activity, the scan for adolescents appeared to be exaggerated and in some sense looked like that of the adult brain. Except the scan for frontal cortex of adolescents related more towards children. These findings mean that the regions aren't properly related and that adolescents favor short term over long term gains.

Galvan even goes on to explain the insight of the teenage brain in a ted talk>> TED Talk. Here she explains that this is the period on how we go from children and start to turn independent and try to figure out how we can separate from our care giver. Along with how teenagers make decisions, which this part of the brain keeps developing till our 20's and this shows why our decision making keeps changing and how we mostly go for riskier but quicker rewards. She even discusses the change of the deeper level of your brain during this time period.

Research
Dr. Adriana Galvan works as a professor at UCLA who's best known for her knowledge on the brain development of adolescents along with their response to reward and risks and she is even known for studying sleep patterns in humans.

- Stress and Brain Function

Adriana Galvan talks about how certain experiences can change the development of brain.

- Sleep Habits and Risk-taking Behaviors

Galvan talks about teens and their unorganized sleeping schedules and how it can affect their day to day life.

- Sleep and Emotion

Galvan talks about how if adults don't get enough sleep it can affect their emotion processing. For example when people are tired they can be groggy and rude to others because they're tired.

Representative Publications

 * Galvan, A., Hare, T. A., Parra, C. E., Penn, J., Voss, H., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2006). Earlier development of the accumbens relative to orbitofrontal cortex might underlie risk-taking behavior in adolescents. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(25), 6885-6892.


 * Hare, T. A., Tottenham, N., Galvan, A., Voss, H. U., Glover, G. H., & Casey, B. J. (2008). Biological substrates of emotional reactivity and regulation in adolescence during an emotional go-nogo task. Biological psychiatry, 63(10), 927-934.


 * Durston, S., Davidson, M. C., Tottenham, N., Galvan, A., Spicer, J., Fossella, J. A., & Casey, B. J. (2006). A shift from diffuse to focal cortical activity with development. Developmental science, 9(1), 1-8.


 * Galvan, A., Hare, T., Voss, H., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2007). Risk‐taking and the adolescent brain: who is at risk?. Developmental science, 10(2), F8-F14.


 * Casey, B. J., Galvan, A., & Hare, T. A. (2005). Changes in cerebral functional organization during cognitive development. Current opinion in neurobiology, 15(2), 239-244.


 * Galvan, A. (2010). Adolescent development of the reward system. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 4, 6.