Nat Neurosci. 2010 Jun;13(6):669-71. Epub 2010 May 16. Cohen JR, Asarnow RF, Sabb FW, Bilder RM, Bookheimer SY, Knowlton BJ, Poldrack RA. Source Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. [email protected] Abstract Previous work has shown that human adolescents may be hypersensitive to rewards, but it is not known […]
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Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009 Sep;206(1):1-21. Epub 2009 Jun 23. Schramm-Sapyta NL, Walker QD, Caster JM, Levin ED, Kuhn CM. Source Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. [email protected] Abstract BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: Epidemiological evidence suggests that people who begin experimenting with drugs of abuse during early adolescence are more likely to develop substance use disorders (SUDs), but […]
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Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2007 Feb;86(2):189-99. Epub 2007 Jan 12. Crews F, He J, Hodge C. Source Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, School of Medecine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. [email protected] Abstract Cortical growth and remodeling continues from birth through youth and adolescence to stable adult levels changing slowly into […]
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J Res Adolesc. 2011 Mar 1;21(1):21-33. Casey B, Jones RM, Somerville LH. Source Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY USA. Abstract Adolescence is a developmental period often characterized as a time of impulsive and risky choices leading to increased incidence of unintentional injuries and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, […]
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J Neurosci. 2006 Jun 21;26(25):6885-92. Galvan A, Hare TA, Parra CE, Penn J, Voss H, Glover G, Casey BJ. Source The Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA. [email protected] Abstract Adolescence has been characterized by risk-taking behaviors that can lead to fatal outcomes. This […]
Read More… from Earlier development of the accumbens relative to orbitofrontal cortex might underlie risk-taking behavior in adolescents (2006)
J Neurosci. 2011 Jan 26;31(4):1471-8. Sturman DA, Moghaddam B. Source Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Abstract Adolescence is a time of both cognitive maturation and vulnerability to several major psychiatric illnesses and drug dependence. There is increasing awareness that behavioral or pharmacological intervention during this period may be critical […]
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 31;109(5):1719-24. Epub 2012 Jan 17. Sturman DA, Moghaddam B. Source Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. Abstract Adolescents often respond differently than adults to the same salient motivating contexts, such as peer interactions and pleasurable stimuli. Delineating the neural processing differences of […]
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Dev Rev. 2008; 28(1): 62–77. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2007.08.003 PMCID: PMC2500212 B.J. Casey,a,* Sarah Getz,a and Adriana Galvanb Abstract Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by suboptimal decisions and actions that give rise to an increased incidence of unintentional injuries and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Traditional neurobiological and cognitive explanations […]
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COMMENTS: Taken from – The Impact of Internet Pornography on Adolescents: A Review of the Research: Data were collected over a span of 36 months and collected in three waves.This study suggests that adolescents who are intentionally exposed to violent sexually explicit material were six times more likely to be sexually aggressive than those who […]
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COMMENTS: Study found that – “pornography exposure is not associated with risky sexual behaviors”, except for a “higher odds of not having used a condom at last intercourse“. This is not all that surprising as a large percentage of adolescent porn users we hear from say they are have little sexual experience. Many report finding […]
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