ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2015
Who are those "risk-taking adolescents"? Individual differences in developmental neuroimaging research.
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- Brain Age in Conduct Disorder:: A Mega-Analysis of the ENIGMA Antisocial Behavior Working Group.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Within-person imbalance of reward sensitivity and executive functioning across adolescent development: A longitudinal examination of the dual systems model from childhood to adulthood.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trajectory classes and correlates of the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire-triarchic psychopathy scales from adolescence to young adulthood.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Positive and negative risk-taking behaviors in adolescents: Distinct characteristics, interrelationships, and influencing factors.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Cool and hot executive function problems in young children: linking self-regulation processes to emerging clinical symptoms.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Risk-Taking Is Associated with Decreased Subjective Value Signals and Increased Prediction Error Signals in the Hot Columbia Card Task.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Identification of a Composite Latent Dimension of Reward and Impulsivity Across Clinical, Behavioral, and Neurobiological Domains Among Youth.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Functional Connectivity of the Nucleus Accumbens across Variants of Callous-Unemotional Traits: A Resting-State fMRI Study in Children and Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Effects of Stimulant Treatment on Changes in Brain Activation During Reward Notifications in Drug Naïve Youth With ADHD.Journal of attention disorders · 2024Article
- Developmental changes in brain function linked with addiction-like social media use two years later.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effects of early-life environmental stress on risk-taking tendency of adolescents in rural areas of southwestern China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Adolescent brain cognitive development study: Longitudinal methods, developmental findings, and associations with environmental risk factors.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- The age-varying effects of adolescent stress on impulsivity and sensation seeking.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2023Article
- Brain Changes Linked to Cognitive Symptomatology in Homeless Youth.Clinical nursing research · 2023Article
- Critical tests of fuzzy trace theory in brain and behavior: uncertainty across time, probability, and development.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- The role of early life adversity and inflammation in stress-induced change in reward and risk processes among adolescents.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2023Article
- Relationship between Executive Functions, Social Cognition, and Attachment State of Mind in Adolescence: An Explorative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Understanding Problematic Social Media Use in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Narrative Review and Clinical Recommendations.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Within-Individual Changes in Impulsivity and Sensation Seeking from Childhood to Early Adulthood and Educational Attainment.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
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Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has illuminated the development of human brain function. Some of this work in typically-developing youth has ostensibly captured neural underpinnings of adolescent behavior which is characterized by risk-seeking propensity, according to psychometric questionnaires and a wealth of anecdote. Notably, cross-sectional comparisons have revealed age-dependent differences between adolescents and other age groups in regional brain responsiveness to prospective or experienced rewards (usually greater in adolescents) or penalties (usually diminished in adolescents). These differences have been interpreted as reflecting an imbalance between motivational drive and behavioral control mechanisms, especially in mid-adolescence, thus promoting greater risk-taking. While intriguing, we caution here that researchers should be more circumspect in attributing clinically significant adolescent risky behavior to age-group differences in task-elicited fMRI responses from neurotypical subjects. This is because actual mortality and morbidity from behavioral causes (e.g. substance abuse, violence) by mid-adolescence is heavily concentrated in individuals who are not neurotypical, who rather have shown a lifelong history of behavioral disinhibition that frequently meets criteria for a disruptive behavior disorder, such as conduct disorder, oppositional-defiant disorder, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. These young people are at extreme risk of poor psychosocial outcomes, and should be a focus of future neurodevelopmental research.
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