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Risk Taking and the Adolescent Reward System: a Potential Common Link to Substance Abuse
Keywords Risk-taking; drug use; gambling task; brain development; behavior; young adults; MRI; gray matter; ventral striatum(2012)
Striatum–medial Prefrontal Cortex Connectivity Predicts Developmental Changes in Reinforcement Learning
Keywords Brain development; Children; learning; feedback; brain scans; brain maturation; development; fMRI; functional connectivity; reinforcement learning(2012)
The Impact of Active and Passive Peer Influence on Young Adult Smoking: an Experimental Study
Keywords Peer pressure; Smoking; Imitation; Young adult smoking; Peer influence(2012)
White Matter Development in Adolescence: the Influence of Puberty and Implications for Affective Disorders
Keywords Brain development; White matter; Puberty; Sex differences; Review study; White matter development; White matter volume; Diffusion tensor imaging; Affective disorders(2012)
Young Adult Offenders: The Need for More Effective Legislative Options and Justice Processing
Keywords Legal age of adulthood; developmental age of adulthood; impulsivity; recidivism; young adult offenders; juvenile justice system(2012)
Youth Are More Vulnerable to False Memories Than Middle-aged Adults Due to Liberal Response Bias
Keywords False memory; Brain development; Adolescents; Young adults; DRM; development; Youth(2012)
Aligning Justice System Processing with Developmental Science
Keywords emerging adulthood; human and social costs of incarceration(2012)
Addiction, Adolescence, and the Integration of Control and Motivation
Keywords adolescence; addiction; dual-process models; risky decision making; attentional bias; training; risk taking(2011)
Adolescent Brain Development and Drugs
Keywords Adolescence; Behavior; Brain development; Choices; Drugs; Safety(2011)
Braking and Accelerating of the Adolescent Brain
Keywords Adolescence; brain; development; fMRI; risk; incentive; cognitive control; connectivity(2011)
Behavioral Assessment of Emotion Discrimination, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Control in Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood
Keywords emotion-regulation; emotion; faces; go/nogo; Mental control; Age Brain imaging/scans; Development(2011)
Cognitive Control in Adolescence: Neural Underpinnings and Relation to Self-Report Behaviors
Keywords Adolescents; Prefrontal cortex; Impulsivity; Monte Carlo method; Attention; Questionnaires; Semantics(2011)
Early Health Risk Factors for Violence: Conceptualization, Evidence, and Implications
Keywords Health Risk Factors; Alcohol during Pregnancy; Biosocial Interaction; Tobacco during Pregnancy; Toxicity and Drugs During Pregnancy; Head Injury During Early Childhood; Teenage Pregnancy; Birth Complications; Malnutrition of the Pregnant Mother; Malnutrition During Early Postnatal Years; Brain Dysfunction; Aggression; Child Behavior Problems; Violence Prevention; Protective Factors; Mediating Factors(2011)
Frontostriatal Maturation Predicts Cognitive Control Failure to Appetitive Cues in Adolescents
Keywords Risk taking; Adolescents; Brain development; Rewards(2011)
Juvenile Justice in the US: Facts for Policymakers
Keywords Adolescent brain development; prefrontal cortex; executive function; decision-making; juvenile justice system; risk factors; non-violent crime; recidivism; rehabilitation(2011)