Sabine Peters

TL;DR: This review discusses both the maladaptive and adaptive properties of heightened reward-sensitivity in adolescents by reviewing recent cognitive neuroscience findings in relation to behavioral outcomes, and identifies brain regions involved in processing rewards in adults and adolescents.

TL;DR: The Qoala‐T tool is presented, which is an easy and free to use supervised‐learning model to reduce rater bias and misclassification in manual quality control procedures using FreeSurfer‐processed scans and was able to adequately predict the quality of two novel unseen datasets.

TL;DR: The findings reveal that ventral striatum and mPFC hypersensitivity in adolescence is dependent on social context and suggest that increased risk-taking and sensation seeking observed in adolescence might not be purely related to hyperactivity of the ventral Striatum, but that these behaviors are probably strongly related to the social context in which they occur.

TL;DR: It was showed that emerging depression is associated with cortical thinning in frontal regions within individuals, which move beyond detecting cross‐sectional correlations and set the stage for early detection, which may inform future intervention.

TL;DR: This study is the first to demonstrate the interplay between adolescent alcohol use, sex hormones and brain mechanisms, thus taking an important step to increase the understanding of the mechanisms behind this form of adolescent risk-taking.