SynthesisHuman brain mapping2022
Risk-taking in the human brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of the balloon analog risk task (BART).
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- Common and Distinct Neural Mechanisms Underlying Risk Seeking and Risk Aversion: Evidence From the Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis.Human brain mapping · 2025Pooled it
- Adaptations of the balloon analog risk task for neuroimaging settings: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Pooled 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
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- Neural Correlates and Sex-Specific Effects of Affectively Driven Processes Underlying Decision-Making in Adult ADHD.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Commonalities and differences in trait-like, risky, and utilitarian decision-making styles between abstinent heroin-dependent individuals and their siblings.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Differential pathways from personality to risk-taking: how extraversion and negative emotionality shape decision-making through overconfidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Reward-seeking behaviors moderate the association between early life adversity and anhedonia 12 months later.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Nothing to lose? Neural correlates of decision, anticipation, and feedback in the balloon analog risk task.Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Age differences in the neural basis of decision-making under uncertainty.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
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Abstract
The Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART) is increasingly used to assess risk-taking behavior and brain function. However, the brain networks underlying risk-taking during the BART and its reliability remain controversial. Here, we combined the activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis with both task-based and task-free functional connectivity (FC) analysis to quantitatively synthesize brain networks involved in risk-taking during the BART, and compared the differences between adults and adolescents studies. Based on 22 pooled publications, the ALE meta-analysis revealed multiple brain regions in the reward network, salience network, and executive control network underlying risk-taking during the BART. Compared with adult risk-taking, adolescent risk-taking showed greater activation in the insula, putamen, and prefrontal regions. The combination of meta-analytic connectivity modeling with task-free FC analysis further confirmed the involvement of the reward, salience, and cognitive control networks in the BART. These findings demonstrate the core brain networks for risk-taking during the BART and support the utility of the BART for future neuroimaging and developmental research.
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