Mothers know best: redirecting adolescent reward sensitivity toward safe behavior during risk taking

Despite being one of the healthiest developmental periods, morbidity and mortality rates increase dramatically during adolescence, largely due to preventable, risky behaviors. Heightened reward sensitivity, coupled with ineffective cognitive control, has been proposed to underlie adolescents’ risk t...

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Published in:Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 2015-10, Vol.10 (10), p.1383-1391
Main Authors: Telzer, Eva H., Ichien, Nicholas T., Qu, Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Decision Making - physiology
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Mothers
Original
Prefrontal Cortex - physiology
Reward
Risk-Taking
Ventral Striatum - physiology
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