ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017
Beyond stereotypes of adolescent risk taking: Placing the adolescent brain in developmental context.
Review in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 159 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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159 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 403 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Effect of Pubertal Status on Self-Regulation of Behavior and Executive Functions-A Systematic Review.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Pooled it
- Adolescents' perspectives and experiences of accessing general practitioner services: A systematic review.Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · 2025Pooled it
- Risk-taking in the human brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of the balloon analog risk task (BART).Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
- Incorporating the social context into neurocognitive models of adolescent decision-making: A neuroimaging meta-analysis.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Amplification of positivity for depression and anxiety: Neural prediction of treatment response.Behaviour research and therapy · 2024Trial
- Sleep Architecture and Risk-Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Independent Contributions of REM Sleep, Sigma Activity, and Morning Cortisol.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Adolescents' offline meetings with online contacts: Longitudinal relationships between the behavior and perceptions of risks, benefits, and peer involvement.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Shared and Unique Patterns of Dysregulated Dual Systems Between Adolescent Problematic Video Gaming and ADHD.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- What's in It for Them? A Developmental Science Perspective on Adolescent Climate Activism.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Are neural and behavioural measures of cognitive control associated with adaptive and maladaptive risk-taking in adolescence and young adulthood?Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Constructing Offender Typologies From Judicial Data: A Clustering Analysis of Sextortion Cases.Sexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment · 2026Article
- Risk Perception and Susceptibility to Peer Influence Predict Substance Use in Early Adolescence: Findings From the ABCD Study.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2026Article
- Problematic gaming, problematic social media use, and psychological well-being in adolescents: exploring networks of symptoms in 10 European countries.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Risk calculation circuit abnormalities plus psychosocial risk variables predict problematic substance use in youth with externalizing disorders.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Bidirectional Associations Between Engagement with Tobacco Information on Social Media and Young Adults' Depressive Symptoms: A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Timing of Sexual Initiation in Polish Adolescents: A Multilevel Study of Individual, Family, and Contextual Determinants.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Parental Influence on Adolescent Gambling: the Role of Communication, Rules, and Social Support.Journal of gambling studies · 2026Article
- Climate change and youth development: A view of an emerging field.International journal of behavioral development · 2026Review
- Association between anxiety symptoms on risky e-biking riding behavior among adolescents: based on gut-brain axis.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
99 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Recent neuroscience models of adolescent brain development attribute the morbidity and mortality of this period to structural and functional imbalances between more fully developed limbic regions that subserve reward and emotion as opposed to those that enable cognitive control. We challenge this interpretation of adolescent development by distinguishing risk-taking that peaks during adolescence (sensation seeking and impulsive action) from risk taking that declines monotonically from childhood to adulthood (impulsive choice and other decisions under known risk). Sensation seeking is primarily motivated by exploration of the environment under ambiguous risk contexts, while impulsive action, which is likely to be maladaptive, is more characteristic of a subset of youth with weak control over limbic motivation. Risk taking that declines monotonically from childhood to adulthood occurs primarily under conditions of known risks and reflects increases in executive function as well as aversion to risk based on increases in gist-based reasoning. We propose an alternative Life-span Wisdom Model that highlights the importance of experience gained through exploration during adolescence. We propose, therefore, that brain models that recognize the adaptive roles that cognition and experience play during adolescence provide a more complete and helpful picture of this period of development.
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