Adolescents in
healthy dating
relationships — which are characterized as having «open communication, high levels of trust and partners who are relatively close in age» according to Sarah Sorensen of the ACT for Youth Center of Excellence — learn
about romance and intimacy in ways that will help forge solid self - concepts, interpersonal skills and partnerships in their adult lives.
The aims of the study are 1) to investigate differences in the topographic distribution of white matter integrity between
adolescents with IAD and
healthy controls without IAD, making no a priori assumptions
about the location of possible abnormalities, and 2) to determine whether there was any
relationship between white matter integrity and neurophysiological measures in IAD subjects.