Adolescent Health and Wellbeing

Alessandro Pingitore works as a scientist at the Institute of Clinical Physiology (National Research Council), Pisa, Italy. His main research fields are the assessment of cardiac function and morphology by means of non-invasive cardiac imaging, the relationship between thyroid hormone and the heart, and the physiological response to strenuous physical stress in normal and extreme environments. He is responsible for the AVATAR project, an Italian multicenter study for the promotion and evaluation of health and wellbeing among healthy adolescents. He is the author of 138 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, 2 books, and 10 book chapters. Francesca Mastorci graduated with a degree in Biology and Biomedical Science, subsequently receiving her PhD in Systemic Physiopathology for a study of the physiological and psychological effects of exposure to stressors in experimental animal models and humans. Her chief research interest is in psychophysiological stress response and its countermeasures using standardized protocols, including the analysis of high density EEG in humans, autonomic, endocrine and metabolic measurements, and the study of nonverbal behaviors in different stages of life, with a particular focus on adolescence through the AVATAR project. She is the author of 25 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals.

Part I: Primordial prevention: General Aspects.- 1. Preventive strategies: past, present and future.- 2. Fetal Programming of Adult Disease in a Translational Point of View.- 3. Physical activity and wellbeing.- 4. Dietary habit and quality.- 5. Biochemical markers in primordial prevention: premises and promises.- Part II: Adolescents' mental health and well-being.- 6. Perinatal influences on neurodevelopment: The role of epigenetics.- 7. The role of environmental enrichment on neurodevelopment.- 8. Relationship between emotions, sleep and wellbeing.- 9. Empowering adolescents with life skills education.- Part III: Adolescence and the Social Determinants of Health.- 10. Family and Community.- 11. School.- 12. Peers.- Part IV: The digital era in adolescent's health and well-being.- 13. Adolescence between past and future.- 14. e-Health strategies.- 15. Experiences and perspectives of the game in health programs: controversial issues.- 16. New perspectives for multidisciplinary and integrated strategies of adolescent health and wellbeing.