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The Neuroscience of Adolescent Decision-Making
Keywords Adolescents; Rewards; Uncertainty; Brain development; Decision making(2015)
Development During Adolescence of the Neural Processing of Social Emotion
Keywords Brain scans ; Emotions ; Basic emotions ; Social emotions ; Teenagers ; Adulthood(2015)
Who Are Those 'Risk-Taking Adolescents'? Individual Differences in Developmental Neuroimaging Research
Keywords Punishment; Self-control; Adolescence; Risk-taking; FMRI(2015)
Adolescents Let Sufficient Evidence Accumulate Before Making a Decision When Large Incentives Are at Stake
Keywords Impulsivity; Incentives; Teenage behavior; Reward; Adolescent decision-making; Choice evaluation(2014)
Brain Structural Correlates of Risk-Taking Behavior and Effects of Peer Influence in Adolescents
Keywords Adolescence; risk-taking behavior; peer influence; personality; gray matter; white matter; peer competition(2014)
Does Perceived Racial Discrimination Predict Changes in Psychological Distress and Substance Use Over Time? An Examination Among Black Emerging Adults
Keywords Race; Discrimination; Alcohol use; Smoking; Mental disorders; Depression; Anxiety; Substance Use(2014)
Effects of Anonymous Peer Observation on Adolescents' Preference for Immediate Rewards
Keywords Risk-taking; Adolescence; Childhood; Rewards; Control; Peer influence(2014)
Suicidality, Bullying and Other Conduct and Mental Health Correlates of Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescents
Keywords TBI; adolescent; suicide; bullying; conduct; mental health; brain injury(2014)
Addressing Trauma and Psychosocial Development in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: A Synthesis of the Developmental Neuroscience, Juvenile Justice and Trauma Literature
Keywords juvenile justice; adolescent development; self-regulation; trauma; ACEs; neural development; brain development(2014)
Perceived Discrimination Among African American Adolescents and Allostatic Load: a Longitudinal Analysis with Buffering Effects
Keywords Adolescents; Black; Racism; Stress; Health; allostatic load; development; discrimination(2014)
Phasic Dopamine Neuron Activity Elicits Unique Mesofrontal Plasticity in Adolescence
Keywords Brain development; mental health; brain activity; teenagers; adolescents; adults; brain scans; neuroscience; neuroplasticity; adolescence; dopmaine; frontal cortex; in vivo imaging; optogenetics; phasic activity(2014)
Sharing and Giving Across Adolescence: an Experimental Study Examining the Development of Prosocial Behavior
Keywords Children; adolescents; teenagers; emotional control; friends; peers; friendship; behavior; prosocial behavior; fairness; trust; reciprocity; peer relationships(2014)
Socioeconomic Status and Structural Brain Development
Keywords Brain scans; neuroscience; brain development; environment; socioeconomic status; memory; emotional control; structural imaging; environmental variation(2014)
Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?
Keywords Adolescents; Brain development; Risk taking; Cognition; social cognition; mentalizing; adolescent brain development; plasticity; sensitive period(2014)
The Role of the Anterior Insula in Adolescent Decision Making
Keywords Adolescence; Risky decision making; Neural development; Anterior insula(2014)