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Adolescence as a Sensitive Period of Brain Development
Keywords Adolescence; Brain development; Memory; Social stress; Drug use; Stress(2015)
Biological Risk for the Development of Problem Behavior in Adolescence: Integrating Insights from Behavioral Genetics and Neuroscience
Keywords gene-environment interaction; behavior genetics; delinquency; substance use; problem behavior; risk-taking; externalizing; dual systems model; adolescence(2015)
Brain Functional Correlates of Emotion Regulation Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Keywords Childhood; adulthood; emotional control; brain; fear; brain scans; brain develoment; facial expression; adolescence; cognitive; development; emotion regulation; fMRI; reappraisal; social(2015)
Child Poverty and Adult Success
Keywords Low incomes ; Effects ; Financial struggles ; Basic needs ; High-quality education ; Living situations ; Poverty Data; Families; Children(2015)
Exiting and Returning to the Parental Home for Boomerang Kids
Keywords home leaving; home returning; transition to adulthood; economic status; mental health; National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997(2015)
Longitudinal Changes in Adolescent Risk-taking: a Comprehensive Study of Neural Responses to Rewards, Pubertal Development, and Risk-Taking Behavior
Keywords Risk taking; Adolescents; Brain development; Rewards; Hormones; Puberty; Adolescence; reward processing; risk-taking(2015)
The Effects of Social Context and Acute Stress on Decision-making Under Uncertainty
Keywords Risk taking; Trust; Stress; Decision making; risk; social decision-making; learning(2015)
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)
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)