…results from studies in which each model has been used to compare adolescent and adult exposure. Adolescent rodents as models of adolescent humans We have focused on rodent models of… […]
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…adolescent neurobiological susceptibility to social context for understanding why and how adolescents differ in development and well-being. We propose that adolescent development is shaped by brain-based individual differences in sensitivity… […]
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and psychiatric vulnerability in adolescents. KEYWORDS: Adolescent; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; Rat; Reward; Striatum Highlights The adolescent brain processes rewards differently than in adults. These differences occur even when behavior is similar… […]
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…is to select adolescents of similar age, but experiencing different stage of puberty. Mid-late puberty adolescents differ from adolescents in early puberty in their emotional regulation of startle response and… […]
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…development Introduction Adolescent Risk-Taking as a Public Health Problem It is widely agreed among experts in the study of adolescent health and development that the greatest threats to the well-being… […]
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…indicating that pre-adolescents display a level of risk-taking comparable to adults, and less than adolescents (Figner, Mackinlay, Wilkening, & Weber, 2009). These experiments lend support to the notion that adolescents… […]
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…journals between 1995 and 2015 on the prevalence, predictors, and implications of adolescents’ use of pornography. This research showed that adolescents use pornography, but prevalence rates varied greatly. Adolescents who… […]
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…later behaviors in adolescents. During an fMRI scan, adolescents completed a basic cognitive control task (Go-Nogo task). One week following the scan, adolescents returned to the lab to undergo a… […]
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…in adolescents relative to other groups. This is particularly relevant to the well-characterized risk-taking behavior in adolescents (Steinberg, 2004). Relative to adults or children, adolescents are more likely to categorize… […]
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…risk taking is present prior to the adolescent period. It is not surprising therefore given the large individual differences in adolescent risk taking that a small proportion of adolescent account… […]
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