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A Social Neuroscience Perspective on Adolescent Risk-Taking.

Laurence Steinberg
- 01 Mar 2008 - 
- Vol. 28, Iss: 1, pp 78-106
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This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by developmental neuroscience, and finds that changes in the brain's cognitive control system - changes which improve individuals' capacity for self-regulation - occur across adolescence and young adulthood.
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This article is published in Developmental Review.The article was published on 2008-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2857 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Developmental cognitive neuroscience & Social neuroscience.

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Understanding adolescence as a period of social–affective engagement and goal flexibility.

TL;DR: Developmental neuroimaging studies do not support a simple model of frontal cortical immaturity, and growing evidence points to the importance of changes in social and affective processing, which begin around the onset of puberty, as crucial to understanding these adolescent vulnerabilities.
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Handbook of Child Psychology

William Damon
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of biology for human development and the role of the human brain in the development of human cognition and behavior, and propose a model of human development based on the Bioecological Model of Human Development.
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Factor structure of the Barratt impulsiveness scale.

TL;DR: The results of the present study suggest that the total score of the BIS-11 is an internally consistent measure of impulsiveness and has potential clinical utility for measuring impulsiveness among selected patient and inmate populations.
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Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex

TL;DR: Using a novel task which simulates real-life decision-making in the way it factors uncertainty of premises and outcomes, as well as reward and punishment, it is found that prefrontal patients are oblivious to the future consequences of their actions, and seem to be guided by immediate prospects only.
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The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations

TL;DR: Developmental changes in prefrontal cortex and limbic brain regions of adolescents across a variety of species, alterations that include an apparent shift in the balance between mesocortical and mesolimbic dopamine systems likely contribute to the unique characteristics of adolescence.
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The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of Ultimatum Game players was used to investigate neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processes involved in economic decision-making and significantly heightened activity in anterior insula for rejected unfair offers suggests an important role for emotions in decision- making.
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Are neurological changes in older age a factor in higher risk seeking in adolescents?

The paper does not discuss neurological changes in older age as a factor in higher risk-seeking in adolescents. The paper focuses on the changes in the brain's socio-emotional system and cognitive control system during adolescence.